Setting a New Default Authentication Configuration

The user domain of the new default configuration must include at least one user who is defined in CentraSite with the CentraSite Administrator role, otherwise you will be prompted to enter a user who will be defined as administrator in that configuration.

To set a new default authentication configuration, use the command line tool CentraSiteCommand with the option set DefaultDomain. For information about the tool syntax, see Setting the Default Configuration.

If the user domain of the configuration that you wish to set to the default does not contain any user who is defined in CentraSite with the CentraSite Administrator role, a dialog will appear, asking you to provide the user name and password of a domain user who will be granted this role in CentraSite.

If the user already exists in CentraSite, but does not have the CentraSite Administrator role, the role will be granted to the user. If the user does not exist in CentraSite, a user with the given user name will be created in CentraSite and will be granted the CentraSite Administrator role.

The dialog also allows you to specify an organization for the user, in cases where the user did not already exist in CentraSite. The newly created CentraSite user will be assigned to this organization. If you do not specify an organization, the user is assigned to the default organization.

Users who are in the default domain can log in without having to specify the domain name, but they can specify the domain name if they wish. Users who are not in the current default domain always have to specify the domain name when logging in.

Note:

Keep the following in mind:

1. If your default authentication configuration contains only one user who has the CentraSite Administrator role in CentraSite, it is not possible to delete this user from CentraSite, or to remove the CentraSite Administrator role from the user. This is because the default configuration must always contain at least one user who is defined in CentraSite with the CentraSite Administrator role.

2. If you try to log in to a CentraSite component (for example, CentraSite Control) by supplying a user name and password but no domain name, the authentication mechanism assumes that you belong to the domain of the default configuration and will authenticate you against this domain. If you change the default configuration as described above and subsequently try to log in to a CentraSite component, you must supply your domain name in addition to your user name, so that the authentication mechanism knows which domain to use to check your credentials.

When you set a new default authentication configuration, you might want to change the association between CentraSite users (that is, CentraSite registry objects representing users) and users in the external user repository. For information on how to do this, and in particular if you want to do this for many users, see Reassociating Users.