Welcome Common Authentication across the Alfresco Stack.

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Credentials
login & password
Sessions
on backend services
Identity
Management
on backend services

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alf_ticket

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Alfresco Content Services
Authentication
Ticket
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(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token

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Authentication
Session
Client
Usage
Authentication
Session
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app.config.json*
{
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"ecmHost": "http://localhost:3000/ecm",
"bpmHost": "http://localhost:3000/bpm",
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(*) Calls need to be proxied to avoid CORS

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Alfresco
Identity
Service
Authentication
DBP Session
Client
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#openness

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#openness

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(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token

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JWT token
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alfresco-global.properties
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authentication.chain = identity-service1:identity-service, ...
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tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/identity-service
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alfresco-global.properties
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authentication.chain = identity-service1:identity-service, ...
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tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/identity-service
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tomcat/webapps/activiti-app/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/activiti-app/activit
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Since APS 1.X >= 1.9
(not on APS 2)
Since ADF 2.4.0

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User authentication
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User authentication
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(don’t worry and stay tuned!)
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