How to implement basic authentication(AD user) with Portal to manage authorization
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How to implement basic authentication(AD user) with Portal to manage authorization

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Article ID: 399439

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Products

CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

We have a requirement to implement the frontend gateway authentication for api services as basic auth using Microsoft Entra Id/ AD user.
We need to have authorization as well to restrict specific users access to specific apis only. How to incorporate developer portal with this AD user authentication to manage the access parts

Environment

11.1

Resolution

Portal isn't meant to manage users like what you have in mind (i.e. define an application key for each user, where the key ID would be the userID).The approach here should be (with a Policy Template to validate the mapping between the user and the APIs, stored in an external platform) .