Custom Authorization

Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to setup RS to use custom
authorization with out implementing custom authentication ? I want to
use windows authentication for authentication, and custom
authorization. If its possible how would I go about configuring it ?
ThanksHello,
you can't implement both (Forms and Windos) authentications together!
Your first question is a bit confusing, I'm not shure if I understand it
correct.
You can find out how to implement forms authentication in the following
article:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160724.aspx
A sample application can be found in samples bellowe the SQL Server
installation directory. If requiered you can install this sample with the
installation CD or download them as described in the article.
There are some traps in this article, especialy with w2k3 server.
For the report manager the instructions are not working. You need to
configure Windows instate of forms in the config file.
You need to followe the instruction carefully and expect some traps and time
for googling, trial and error etc.
"ismell1@.gmail.com" wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if it was possible to setup RS to use custom
> authorization with out implementing custom authentication ? I want to
> use windows authentication for authentication, and custom
> authorization. If its possible how would I go about configuring it ?
> Thanks
>|||I'm not trying to use both of them together, I'm trying to use windows
<b>AUTHENTICATION</b> and use custom <b>AUTHORIZATION</b>.
I wan't my users to be authenticated via windows security but I wan't
to control what they have access to via my custom extension. I
couldn't find anything in the config files but what I ended up doing
was replacing the windows authorization config line with mine and it
loaded the DLL just fine.
<pre>
<Security>
<!--<Extension Name="Windows"
Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Authorization.WindowsAuthorization,
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Authorization"/>-->
<Extension Name="Windows" Type="rxLibrary.rxSecurity, rxSecurity"/>
</Security>
</pre>
Now my problem is that when i try and load the ACL i get a
serialization exception "The input stream is not a valid binary
format. The starting contents (in bytes) are: XX-XX...". After doing
some research I think its because the security description was created
with the windows dll. So now I have to figure out how to clear the old
security descriptions and I can create new ones using my
CreateSecurityDescriptor function.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
On Jan 21, 1:23 pm, Ralf Stofer <RalfSto...@.discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
> you can't implement both (Forms and Windos) authentications together!
> Your first question is a bit confusing, I'm not shure if I understand it
> correct.
> You can find out how to implement forms authentication in the following
> article:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160724.aspx
> A sample application can be found in samples bellowe the SQL Server
> installation directory. If requiered you can install this sample with the
> installation CD or download them as described in the article.
> There are some traps in this article, especialy with w2k3 server.
> For the report manager the instructions are not working. You need to
> configure Windows instate of forms in the config file.
> You need to followe the instruction carefully and expect some traps and time
> for googling, trial and error etc.
> "isme...@.gmail.com" wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if it was possible to setup RS to use custom
> > authorization with out implementing custom authentication ? I want to
> > use windows authentication for authentication, and custom
> > authorization. If its possible how would I go about configuring it ?
> > Thanks|||I was trying to create custom a authorization extension with out having to
use forms authentication. I didn't see any thing in the config files for
setting that. So what I ended up doing was replacing the Windows
authorization module with my own.
<Security>
<!--<Extension Name="Windows"
Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Authorization.WindowsAuthorization,
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Authorization"/>-->
<Extension Name="Windows" Type="rxLibrary.rxSecurity, rxSecurity"/>
</Security>
This seems to work just fine, now my problem is when I try and deserialize
the ACL's I get a "The input stream is not a valid binary format" Exception.
after doing some research i found that the ACL was created using the Default
CreateSecurityDescriptor function, so my extension can't deserialize it.
So now I'm wondering if its possible to clear the secuirty descriptors for
all objects on the server ?
Thanks,
Raul
"Ralf Stofer" wrote:
> Hello,
> you can't implement both (Forms and Windos) authentications together!
> Your first question is a bit confusing, I'm not shure if I understand it
> correct.
> You can find out how to implement forms authentication in the following
> article:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160724.aspx
> A sample application can be found in samples bellowe the SQL Server
> installation directory. If requiered you can install this sample with the
> installation CD or download them as described in the article.
> There are some traps in this article, especialy with w2k3 server.
> For the report manager the instructions are not working. You need to
> configure Windows instate of forms in the config file.
> You need to followe the instruction carefully and expect some traps and time
> for googling, trial and error etc.
>
>
>
> "ismell1@.gmail.com" wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if it was possible to setup RS to use custom
> > authorization with out implementing custom authentication ? I want to
> > use windows authentication for authentication, and custom
> > authorization. If its possible how would I go about configuring it ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >