Crystal Enterprise security plug-in

The Crystal Enterprise security plug-in (secEnterprise.dll) is installed and enabled by default when you install Crystal Enterprise on Windows or on UNIX. This plug-in allows you to create and maintain user accounts and groups within Crystal Enterprise; it also enables the system to verify all logon requests that specify Enterprise Authentication. In this case, user names and passwords are authenticated against the Crystal Enterprise user list, and users are allowed or disallowed access to the system based solely on that information. For details on setting up Enterprise users and groups, see Managing Enterprise and general accounts.

Default accounts

When you first install Crystal Enterprise, this plug-in sets up two default Enterprise accounts: Administrator and Guest. Neither account has a default password. For details on setting these passwords, Making initial security settings.

Single Sign On

The Crystal Enterprise authentication provider supports anonymous Single Sign On for the Guest account. Thus, when users connect to ePortfolio without specifying a user name and password, the system logs them on automatically under the Guest account. If you assign a secure password to the Guest account, or if you disable the Guest account entirely, you disable this default behavior. For details, see Disabling the Guest account.

Sign Up

By default, users who are logged on under the Guest account also have the ability to sign up and create their own, new accounts on the system. To disable this default behavior, see Disabling the Sign Up feature.