How to Configure MSSQL Connections Using Windows Authentication in Appian?

RE: How to Configure MSSQL Connections Using Windows Authentication in Appian?

veerag6659 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:00:20 GMT

Thanks Eric..

RE: How to Configure MSSQL Connections Using Windows Authentication in Appian?

ericg329 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:35:26 GMT

I haven't personally seen this in Linux, but I have seen it successfully implemented in a Windows Server environment. Based on a quick review of the Microsoft documentation, it looks like it should work on Linux.

To Rob's point, this is outside of Appian's documented database configuration. You would need to work with the external vendors (i.e. Microsoft and RedHat) to ensure your customization is functioning properly. As Appian doesn't directly support the application server feature, they can't guarantee or support the functionality.

Unless you are running into an enterprise security restriction that is forcing you to implement integrated authentication, I would second Rob's suggestion of using Appian's out of the box database connection configuration.

RE: How to Configure MSSQL Connections Using Windows Authentication in Appian?

veerag6659 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:57:30 GMT

Thank you for your suggestions Robert.

RE: How to Configure MSSQL Connections Using Windows Authentication in Appian?

Robert Shankin — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:39:55 GMT

I can't recommend pursuing this.
I don't think it's possible, but if it were, the proposed configuration would most likely be a customization.

The proposed configuration also introduces complexity into the design, support, and maintenance of applications.
Appian's user security features make it possible to easily control which users have access to database data while using a single set of credentials to access the database.
If you were to authenticate to the database per user, it would increase the likelihood that certain application features would not work as designed from time to time.
This might be the result of a certain user not having access to a given database resource.

Also, Users can access Appian from mobile devices as well as Windows and Mac OS.
How should Appian authenticate to SQL server for a user who's accessing Appian from their mobile device?