Chapter Review

This chapter introduced you to FME Server security.

What You Should Have Learned from this Module

Theory

• Users are the individual accounts that access FME Server.
• Roles are comprised of one or more users.
• Default roles and accounts are created when FME Server is installed, but you can also add your own.
• You can integrate your organization's Active Directory users and groups into FME Server.
• The Trusted User Account provides unauthenticated access to any component of FME Server.
• FME Server Windows Services can be changed to any Service Account to allow network access.
• FME Server can be configured for HTTPS, supporting both CA-issued and self-signed certificates.

FME Skills

• The ability to create a new user and assign permissions.
• The ability to create a connection to an Active Directory server and import users and roles.
• The ability to encrypt the communication between the client and server machines with HTTPS.