X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fmkws-manual.markdown;h=fc345d65c1153ff4782186edf4d2d8ce0144e388;hb=da52ec6fe36442fe3e01ec1719dfcc7e5b94c72b;hp=44c3ba651b7bfe14bffadf1a09b92b84c20ac666;hpb=9bed362f2d294164c7250f5db31a4dffefc8ccdd;p=mkws-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/doc/mkws-manual.markdown b/doc/mkws-manual.markdown index 44c3ba6..fc345d6 100644 --- a/doc/mkws-manual.markdown +++ b/doc/mkws-manual.markdown @@ -376,16 +376,15 @@ Setting up such a library is a process of several stages. ### Create the User Access account - -Log in to MKAdmin administrate your library: +Log in to MKAdmin to add a User Access account for your library: * Go to * Enter the adminstrative username/password * Go to the User Access tab * Create an end-user account * Depending on what authentication method it be used, set the - User Access account's username and password, or IP-address range, or - referring URL, or hostname. + User Access account's username and password, or referring URL, or + Service Proxy hostname, or IP-address range. If your MWKS application runs at a well-known, permanent address -- , say -- you can set the User Access @@ -399,9 +398,13 @@ of this hostname to your library by setting the User Access record's that this is not secure, as other applications can use this virtual hostname to gain access to your library.** -> TODO Authentication by IP address does not yet work correctly -- see -> bug MKWS-234 ("Improve SP configuration/proxying for better -> authentication"). +Or if your application's users are coming from a well-known range of +IP-address space, you can enter the range in the "IP Ranges" +field. The format of this field is as follows: it can contain any +number of ranges, separated by commas; each range is either a single +IP address or two addresses separated by a hyphen; each IP address is +four small integers separated by periods. For example, +`80.229.143.255-80.229.143.255, 5.57.0.0-5.57.255.255, 127.0.0.1`. Alternatively, your application can authenticate by username and password credentials. This is a useful approach in several situations, @@ -410,14 +413,17 @@ usual one. To arrange for this, set the username and password as a single string separated by a slash -- e.g. "mike/swordfish" -- into the User Access record's Authentication field. -You can create multiple User Access records: for example, one that -uses Referring URL, and another that uses a username/password pair to -be used when running an application from a different URL. +You can set multiple fields into a single User Access record; or +create multiple User Access records. For example, a single User Access +record can specify both a Referring URL a username/password pair that +can be used when running an application from a different URL. But if +multiple Referring URLs are needed, then each must be specified in its +own User Access record. ### Tell the application to use the library In the HTML of the application, tell MKWS to authenticate on to the -Service Proxy. When IP-based, referer-based or hostname-based +Service Proxy. When referer-based, hostname-based or IP-based authentication is used, this is very simple: