Amazon Cognito is an identity platform for web and mobile apps. It’s a user directory, an authentication server, and an authorization service for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and AWS credentials. With Amazon Cognito, you can authenticate and authorize users from the built-in user directory, from...
Okta is a secure identity cloud that links all your apps, logins and devices into a unified digital fabric. Okta sells centralized services, including a single sign-on service that allows users to log into a variety of systems. This is the service that we use in the tutorial introduced by this...
If you are looking for ways to check AD related settings like User Info, Group Info, DC info or even ID Mapping related info then this article will help you. In Spectrum Scale we have a very useful tool, "mmadquery". Using this tool/command you can query the AD server to get the following...
This is a help article avoid some mistakes that we may make when configuring authentication. An error in authentication can lead to data access issues. Hence, its important to understand the command and its parameters and also take necessary precautions so that we avoid making unforced errors. ...
There will be a series of articles under this topic with this one being the Overview or Introduction to Authentication. I will soon speak about each authentication types, examples, commands and common issues we may see. So lets start with basics: What is Authentication: The objective of...