Using Authentication
VTS enables you to require authentication of each user before the user can access data in the VTS table. When authentication is required, each user must supply a valid user name and associated password to access VTS.
In this topic:
Configure authentication
When VTS is installed, by default authentication is not required. To specify that authentication is required, you need update the configure.json file settings.
Note:
- VTS uses basic or NTLM authentication.
- After you have logged into VTS using authentication, you can close the browser to log out of VTS.
To require authentication to access VTS:
- Open the configure.json file. By default, the configure.json file is located in the C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\VTS\web folder.
- Set authentication to Basic or NTLM.
- In the admin section of the configure.json file, enter the required user authentication details for all users who will access VTS. For details on the configure.json file, see Configuring VTS.
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Restart the VTS Service service.
Go to Control Panel > Systems & Security > Administration Tools > Services. Right-click VTS Service and select Start.
SSL communication
With standard VTS authentication, user names and passwords are transferred as regular text. If this is a security concern, you can use HTTPS for more secure communication between your browser and the VTS server. You require a public key and a private key to implement SSL communication.
To use HTTPS to access VTS:
- Copy the public key file and private key file to the folder in which the Node.exe file is located—typically C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\VTS\web.
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Open the configure.json file, and set useSSL to true. Then set each of the properties described under useSSL in Configuring VTS.
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Restart VTS Service.
Go to Control Panel > Systems & Security > Administration Tools > Services. Right-click VTS Service and select Start.
- Access the VTS website using an
https
URL.