Using Login as Another User with AD-based accounts

[Adrian Cook]

I have security enabled in my project and I'm trying out the feature to import user IDs from Active Directory because I don't want to maintain a set of EA accounts if I don't have to. Seems to work ok, however I can't figure out how to use the Login as Another User feature to login as a different user under this setup (specifically, to move from the default admin account back to my own account created from our Active Directory domain). That login dialog will not accept my domain username and password, nor my username without a password, even though EA will log me in with that account just fine when I open the project.

Does Login as Another User work under this setup? Do I need to re-open the project to log back in as myself? We're using EA 8.0.864.

Thanks,
Adrian

[Adrian Cook]

One thing I forgot to mention: I have tried changing my password in the Change Password dialog when logged in as myself, but it won't accept my domain password in the old password box (nor a blank password) so I'm not able to specify a new password. Any ideas?

Thanks
Adrian

[Eve]

The calls that we use to get the active directory users don't include passwords for obvious reasons. From memory a completely random password is generated and the only way to log in is to use that username.

You can change the password by setting the password to empty (or anything else) as an admin user.

[Dave_Bullet]

to switch on the fly -
Project -> Security -> Login as another user
(you don't have to close / reopen the project)

PS: SPARX - FEATURE REQUEST

Instead of having individual users in EA - why don't you allow an admin to define an AD group in EA.  You can then test membership of the user on logging in to the AD group - then assign the role.

This above would save having to do any user management in EA.  Just setup your roles, then do membership via AD.