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Can Sync Address Book use Active Directory to validate User's password

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Carl Thompson, User (Posts: 10)

Aug 23, 2022 5:53:57 pm EDT

From what I have read and tried setting up Address Book Sync, the user's password is static (assigned when user is created and only changed by user or admin).

Is it possible to link the password to the user's Active Directory credentials?

This would make it easier for the user to remember their password and login.

In a different application, prefixing the user name with an apparent port number made the password active (change when the user changed their company password). For example 234:john.doe.

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2869)

Aug 23, 2022 6:49:54 pm EDT

Hello Carl,

Thank you for your message.

Yes, you can definitely achieve this. In order to do so, please make that the Automatically generate Host password checkbox is deselected on the Advanced options step when configuring a custom installation file.

After that you can proceed to the next step where you can set up a custom password or username/password credentials - you need to select the Pre-configure option and enable the Security Settings checkbox on Step 4 - Host Settings Configuration.
Selecting the above options will prompt the Host Settings window where you can navigate to the Authentication tab and set up Windows Security by selecting allowed users.
Alternatively, you can also set up RU Security which will let you to create allowed users for a specific Host (or Hosts if you use this installer for multiple Host instances) or Custom Server Security which allows you to allow users that can access this Host via Server authentication.

Please let us know if you have more questions.

Carl Thompson, User (Posts: 10)

Aug 24, 2022 9:07:55 pm EDT

Support level: Pro

Hi Pauline,

I believe you are talked about using active directory in the Host configuration.

I am asking about using Active Directory (AD) for the RU Server User logon name in the Address Book Manager.

Can Sync Address Book use Active Directory to validate User's password - 24 Aug 2022 08:28:19

The user's AD password would automatically be used instead of setting a static password.

Then when the user needs to sign in to the RU Server in their viewer they would use their AD credentials for Username and Password.

Can Sync Address Book use Active Directory to validate User's password - 24 Aug 2022 08:36:46

My RU Host would be configured to use the Custom server security.

Can Sync Address Book use Active Directory to validate User's password - 24 Aug 2022 09:01:06

The host would communicate with the RU Server though a opening in the VPN firewall and allow/control the appropriate access to the user.

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2869)

Aug 25, 2022 1:03:29 pm EDT

Hello Carl,

Thank you for the clarification.

Unfortunately, this scenario is not possible to achieve yet in the same way you've described - for now it's only possible to set it up as authentication in the Host Settings.
However, please also note that we've introduced new AD integration with RU Server starting version 7 of Remote Utilities if you're not using it yet. You can read more about it in this blog post.

Hope that helps.

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