The User Access Management module should be used as the single authority to manage authentication and authorisation within a system. This module contains the Cortex flows and subtasks to perform authentication and authorisation.
The module allows users to perform the following functionality:
- Authenticate a user
- End user session
- Manage active sessions
- Create user session
- Check authorisation token
- Dependencies
- Support and Warranty
- Installation
- How to use
- How you can contribute
- Versioning
- Licensing
This version of the CTX-User-Access-Management module was developed in Cortex v6.4.0. Some functionality may not be available in earlier versions of Cortex.
The CTX-User-Access-Management module requires the following Cortex OCIs:
- Cortex Database OCI
- If to be used with Active Directory integration:
- Cortex Active Directory OCI
- If to be used with Cortex Vista security integration:
- Cortex PowerShell OCI
- CTX-Vista-User-Management module
The CTX-User-Access-Management module requires the following files:
The CTX-User-Access-Management module has no additional requirements.
This module is supplied as a template that you can amend and extend to fit your requirements, as such it is not supported as part of the Cortex Product suite under the Cortex product support agreement.
Details of how the module should be imported into Cortex can be found in the Deployment Plan.
A detailed User Guide has been provided with instructions on how to use the module, available here. Configuration of each flow/subtask's inputs and outputs are detailed in notes on the flow/subtask workspace.
Unfortunately, we cannot offer pull requests at this time or accept any improvements.
The CTX-User-Access-Management module has the following versions, starting with the most recent:
| Version | Release | Functionality | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1 | 28/01/2019 | Authenticate User | Updated: A bug has been fixed that caused the User Active Directory groups to be all the Domain groups instead of only the groups the User belonged to. |
| v1.0 | 04/01/2019 | Authenticate User | Created |
| v1.0 | 04/01/2019 | End user session | Created |
| v1.0 | 04/01/2019 | Session Management | Created |
| v1.0 | 04/01/2019 | Create user session | Created |
| v1.0 | 04/01/2019 | Check authorisation token | Created |
All functionality within this module is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
Copyright 2018 Cortex Limited
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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