Security Config

Note

This feature is only available in NCache Enterprise edition.

Every Server node keeps security information that it has to provide to calling clients. Alachisoft.NCache.NCSecurity.dll at server node is required to provide security services to all clients. Whatever information is required by this assembly, for managing security related issues, is present in security.ncconf file. Thisfile helps enabling NCache security as well as to manage Node and API level security. You will find security.ncconf at [InstallDir]/config.

security.ncconf file is explained below:

<!-- Security Configuration file for NCache 3.8 and later versions -->
<cache-security>

    <enabled>true</enabled> <!-- This value shows whether security feature in NCache is enable or disable   -->

<!-- LDAP path is required to log-on to domain.  For more information see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adsi/adsi/ldap_adspath.asp -->
    <ldap>LDAP:DomainControllerName</ldap>
    <port>389</port>

<!-- Following users are Administrators and are allowed to add 'this' node into their clusters and
 also allowed to perform Cache operations at API level for all Caches.-->

    <administrators>
          <uid>james_tardwell</uid>
          <uid>john_smith</uid>
          <uid>paul_jones</uid>
    </administrators>

</cache-security>

• enabled tells users if security is enabled or not (true/false)

• ldap specifies LDAP path for active directory server provider. It is the domain controller. NCache uses Microsoft Active Directory Service for authentication of user. User should exist under given domain in LDAP. For more information, see Microsoft Active Directory Service

• ncache-administrators keeps list of users having rights on all node-based and API-based operations.