Changing the authentication method of the G-Reg Governance Center Store and Publisher

The Enterprise Store (ES) 2.1.0 and Governance Registry (G-Reg) 5.2.0 products support two main authentication methods:

• Basic authentication
• SAML based Single Sign On (SSO)

The process of switching between these two authentication methods can be done by simply editing a configuration file and restarting the respective server.The configuration file for the active authentication method is found in the authentication block of application configuration file:

• For the Publisher it is found at {CARBON_HOME}/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher/config/publisher.json
• For the Store it is located at {CARBON_HOME}/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/store/config/store.json

The {CARBON_HOME} section should be replaced with the location of the product in your file system.

The image above highlights the authentication block in the store.json file.The configuration block is the same in both the Publisher and Store applications.

Changing the active authentication method

The active authentication method can be changed by altering the activeMethod property to either basic or sso.

In the case of the SAML SSO authentication method an additional change must be done  to the {CARBON_HOME}/repository/conf/identity/sso-idp-config.xml.

The above file is used to register service providers with the embedded WSO2 Identity components which provide SAML SSO authentication support.If you are using an external IDP then you should not worry about this file.The service provide configuration blocks should be altered to reflect any port and host changes of the server.