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MicroStrategy Single Sign-On to Library with Trusted Authentication

16 May 2021

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Introduction

When you are browsing MicroStrategy web and you want to open Library. You will be asked for credentials unles you set up Trusted Authentication. This is done through ‘Secret Key’ whitch has to be at least 5 charecters long.

Library

First go to http://localhost:8080/MicroStrategyLibrary/admin
Login

use the password in Default_accounts.txt
Password

and enter user mstr and password that is located under ‘Tomcat’ PassEnterBlured

Then go to ‘Library Server’ and insert Secret Key SecretKeyLibrary

And click ‘Save’

Microstrategy web

Go to http://localhost:8080/MicroStrategy/servlet/mstrWebAdmin

For login use the same password as in Library
PassEnterBlured

Under security
WebSecurity

You will find input for ‘Secret Key’ WebSecretKey

And click ‘Save’

Extra

If at any time you need to check the secret key you can open \tomcat\webapps\MicroStrategyLibrary\WEB-INF\classes\config\configOverride.properties and under identityToken.secretKey you will see your password

Additional read

Single_sign-on