[3] Authentication

Introduction

Panopticon Streams provides multiple approaches on authentication. It can easily be configured to use different authentication mechanisms depending on the environment and the setup. The server only supports authentication and authorization and does not have any support for user management or administration of users.

There are mainly two properties that manage the authentication on the server. These properties are listed and described in the table below. Please note that more properties might need to be configured depending on the authentication mechanism you are using.

Property	Description	Default Value
authentication.role	The required role or group that the user needs to be identified as a Panopticon user. The property can be left blank if no role or group is required.
authentication.required	This property will make the authentication required. It will force the user to login in order to use any of the services provided by the server.	true
authentication.type	The type of authentication that should be used when authenticating the user. The property allows the following values: BASIC, FILTER, HEADER, OAUTH2, SAML, WINDOWS.	BASIC