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By default, the Driver Login Manager in the GridServer Manager will allow any Driver to log in. However, it can be configured to only allow Drivers with a valid username to log in. Driver Authentication is a Director setting, and must be set on each Director.

To enable Driver authentication:

   1. Click the Manager tab.
   2. Click Manager Configuration.
   3. Click Engines and Clients.
   4. In Client Authentication Enabled, enter True.
   5. Click Save.

After Driver authentication is enabled, you will then need to create one or more users, and enter a username and password in the driver.properties file (located in the config directory of the SDK) for each Driver that logs in to the Manager.

If you are authenticating Drivers, it is recommended that you use SSL for Driver login to protect the password. SSL is currently supported for .NET and Java Drivers.

To enable SSL for login:

   1. In the driver.properties file, set DSSSL=true, and set the Director ports to the SSL ports.
   2. For JDriver, place the ssl.keystore file, found in the SDK jdriver directory, into your working directory, or use the DriverManager.setSSLKeystore() API call if you prefer to keep it somewhere else.
   3. For .NET Driver, double-click on the ssl.crt in the DotNETDriver SDK directory, and install the certificate with the default settings.

Enabling Driver Authentication (GridServer 4.0)