RiskyProject and Windows Authentication Modes
RiskyProject uses two authentication modes:
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RiskyProject authentication. In this mode RiskyProject administrator needs to define Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
with all users in RiskyProject using User Management dialog. Administrator will define user information including names, emails
and other contact information, permissions, roles. The administrator will assign RiskyProject license types for each user
which include RiskyProject Professional, RiskyProject Lite, or RiskyProject Risk Register. In this mode all user information
including passwords in encrypted form are saved in the RiskyProject database. This way of authentication is recommended
if Windows directory is not accessible or if OBS used in RiskyProject is different than in the Windows directory.
For example, if RiskyProject will have only a few users and Windows directory contains all users in the organization.
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Windows and RiskyProject authentication. In this mode RiskyProject will authenticate the user against Windows Active
directory. If the user has appropriate permissions, RiskyProject will read OBS to each time RiskyProject starts and save
it in RiskyProject database. This OBS information will be used for RiskyProject operation. Users will not enter their
passwords when logging onto RiskyProject. Since the Windows directory does not contain all information necessary for
RiskyProject operation, the administrator needs to define user permissions, license types, and contact information
and save this in the RiskyProject database. The administrator may add user that are not in Windows directory, to
RiskyProject database. These users may need to enter their user names and passwords. Also, the administrator may
remove certain users from RiskyProject OBS even if they are in the Windows directory. This method of authentication
is recommended when many or all users in organization need to have an access to RiskyProject and organization has
an extensive OBS.
See
also
About User Management
About Project Permissions
About User Logon History
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