Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

Project Security
About security modes
In addition to managing users and groups locally, entirely within a single project, you can also get pre-defined
users and groups from other IWS projects or from an LDAP-compliant domain server.
IWS supports four security modes:
Local Only
This is the standard mode for most projects: users and groups are created in the development
application, and they apply only to the project for which they're created.
Distributed – Server
This is similar to Local Only, except that the project's security system configuration is also
made available to other IWS projects (that are set to Distributed – Client) on the same network.
Furthermore, if the project loses its security system configuration for some reason, then it can
reimport the configuration from one of its client projects.
Distributed – Client
When this mode is selected, the project gets its entire security system configuration from
another IWS project (that is set to Distributed – Server) on the same network. The project
caches this configuration and can continue to run even if it loses communication with the server
project.
Domain (LDAP)
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a recognized standard for managing users
and groups across many different applications on a network. When this mode is selected, the
project gets its users and groups from an LDAP-compliant domain server, such as Microsoft
Active Directory for Windows or OpenLDAP for Linux. However, only the user names, passwords,
and group memberships are taken from the domain; specific rights must still be configured
within the project.
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