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This can be useful if a customer relation management system, or similar, holds user information that is to be shared with the Farcry FarCry application.

This document is intended to help outline the requirements for adding a new UserDirectory via an external database. The methods described below were written with MsSQL MSSQL in mind, but should work with databases that support views. It is assumed that you have good working knowledge of databases, the external database to link in particular.

To create a new UserDirectory , your required to have three database tables/views of the names dmUser , dmGroup , and dmUserToGroup . Below is layout of each of these tables/views. Note that if you're database does not have a matching field to any of the ones below, either substitute it with a similar field, or create a static field in the view. The fields that matter most will be marked in red. Also note that is not recommended to change this data via the Farcry FarCry security interface.

dmUser

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You should now see your new UserDirectory in the Policy and Security tabs. You must add mappings from the normal Farcry FarCry policy groups to external groups you've just added. Since we already set up groups, and the mappings between the users and groups, all that's left to do is map the groups to policies.

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