Transparent integration

Plastic SCM integrates with most modern user directory technologies out of the box, providing a very fast setup and having little or no maintenance requirements.

Supported integrations are:

• Active Directory integration. Provided that clients and servers are inside a Windows Active Directory domain, no questions are asked. Server will get known users from the domain, and clients will transparently validate using Windows integrated authentication against it.
  
  
• LDAP authentication. Two different modes are available. First one allows Unix based clients, or even Windows ones outside the domain, to be authenticated against a PlasticSCM server getting its data from an Active Directory. Native LDAP, on the other hand, allows full authentication against regular LDAP servers, that can be running, for instance, on Solaris.
  
  
• Name authentication. In this mode the Plastic SCM server will retrieve the users from the machine where it is running. Provided that the network set up makes the same users available to both the client and the server, the mechanism will work. This method can be used for NIS based networks.
  
  
• Name + ID authentication. Same as the Name mode, but user id data is also considered. This is the recommended mode for NIS-based netwoks.
  
  
• User/Password authentication. This is the most traditional authentication mechanism. Every registered Plastic SCM user has a user/password pair recorded on the server.