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Is that really authentication?

Working with Ektron the past few weeks, it has come to our attention that they seem to just grasp for something to work. With the current test environment on ColdFusion MX7 and their newest release of CMS400.NET v6.1, we were able to make a clean install. It worked until it came to the point to turn on AD authentication.

This project is intended to replace the Intranet, so AD authentication is a must. Currently AD authentication is working correctly on CMS300 (the non .Net release before CMS400). However on the CMS400.Net, the web services are getting 401 errors as the tags are trying to invoke to the CMS. The “support” told us that we should allow anonymous access or impersonate someone for the ‘webservices’ folder. This defeats the purpose of security. Read more

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