Specifications

FaxPress Administrator’s Guide
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Configuring User Authentication (SSO)
Accessing Novell Users with Single Sign On (SSO)
FaxPress Single Sign On (SSO) mechanism allows the network administrator to
use NDS (or Novell bindery servers) to authenticate and administer FaxPress
users. It provides the ability to control access to FaxPress by using Novell
administration tools such as: NWADMIN.
By tightly integrating with Novell Directory Services, FaxPress automatically
user groups on NDS and allows you to specify which network users have access
to FaxPress and what his privilege level is. To logon to FaxPress a user needs to
be logged on to NDS (or a bindery file server) and be specified as a member in one
of the FaxPress groups. When the user first logs on to FaxPress a mailbox is
automatically created for this user using the network name which he uses to logon
to the network. The administrator has full control over how this mailbox is created
and which properties will be assign to the mailbox such as which NDS print queue
will be assigned to the user.
To add new users to FaxPress, all the administrator needs to do is add him to one
of the FaxPress groups. When the user is removed from the group he will not be
granted access to FaxPress. SSO also provides an automated way to clean up non-
used mailboxes for users who are removed from the groups.
FaxPress Authentication Methods
FaxPress allows the administrator to select the method by which users will be
authenticated and granted access to FaxPress. The following authentication
methods are available:
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FaxPress Native Authentication —
User needs to log on to FaxPress by
specifying a user name and a password. This method is always available, even
for SSO enabled FaxPress servers.
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NDS Authentication —
User needs to be logged on to a specified context on
NDS in order to be able to logon to FaxPress. No additional password is
required for FaxPress.