An Example Of Coldfusion Studio Security; Enabling Advanced Security; Specifying A User Directory - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION Manual

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An Example of ColdFusion Studio Security

This example shows you how to limit ColdFusion Studio access to a specific set of
files and/or data sources on a remote server based on username/password
authentication.
For this example, assume you are responsible for two development groups, Mars and
Venus. Each group needs separate access rules for source files and data sources its
current projects. To provide this access, you will:
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The following sections detail these steps.

Enabling Advanced Security

Before you can configure anything, you need to turn on ColdFusion Advanced
security.
To enable Advanced Security:
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Specifying a User Directory

Once you enable Advanced security, you must select a user directory to use for
authenticating users when they try to access files, directories, or data sources from
ColdFusion Studio.
To specify a user directory:
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Enable Advanced Security.
Specify a user directory for security authentication.
Add a security context for RDS security.
Specify the file and data source resources to protect.
Add a policy for each group of resources/users that you want to give access to the
protected set of resources
To each Policy add the resources that can be accessed by that policy
To each Policy add the users or groups you want to have access to the policy
resources
Enable ColdFusion Studio security and associate the RDS security context you
created with the ColdFusion Studio security.
Open the ColdFusion Administrator and click the Advanced Security link.
You see the Advanced Server Security page.
Select the Use Advanced Server Security check box.
In the Advanced Server Security page click the User Directories button. You can
specify either LDAP or Windows NT directory services. For an NT user directory,
enter the server name in the form: domain_name/server_name.
Chapter 5 Configuring Advanced Security