Friday, March 18, 2011

Bypassing SSO while logging into portal

A nifty trick I found out.....Okies...I am not an expert...so probably everyone knows about it but still there might be someone out there who might not know this....

This ones dedicated to all Portal Administrator's .......Remember the times when you have to work on VPN which has SSO enabled in it...as a result when you login into the VPN....the same credentials are automatically used for logging into the portal......thereby removing the intermediate step of entering login credentials for accessing the portal.

Here's a nifty trick I learned yesterday which will bypass this SSO and force you to enter your login credentials....Just type in space=Login at the end of your .pt URL... (The L of Login should be in upper case)
For example the normal URL for accessing my sandbox is http://mavericks/portal/server.pt
Just append at the end so that the URL looks like http://mavericks/portal/server.pt?space=Login

This is especially useful when you are testing out some changes in the portal using a different login but the damn SSO...automatically logs using your account as soon as you type in the URL. This nifty trick should work fine in these situations....

Njoy!!!!!!