User management

Manage users, groups, roles, and authentication for controlled access to FactFinder features.

Overview

User Management lets you assign precise permissions to individual users. For example, you can limit users to specific channels or let them manage only certain configurations. This permission model is based on roles that grant access to specific modules. Roles can be assigned directly to users or indirectly through groups. Groups make it easier to assign complex role sets in bulk.

If you use the web service connection, supply authentication data with each call. With other methods, authorization can be disabled. Only do that if FactFinder runs on a server that is not accessible from the internet.

Basic Authentication

To use Basic Authentication, the Authorization header must contain the word Basic, followed by a space and the Base64-encoded string username:password.

A header using the credentials factfinder / pw looks like this:

Authorization: Basic ZmFjdGZpbmRlcjpwdw==

ZmFjdGZpbmRlcjpwdw== being the Base64 representation of factfinder:pw.