Release Notes: R9: Single Sign On User Authentication Enhancements

The Change

Development has been carried out to tighten application access for customer that are using the Fourth Account Service to authenticate.

Release Date: 27/04/2016

Reason for the Change

The changes have been made in order to encourage and enforce Fourth Account customer users to login via the Fourth Account Service login rather than directly through the application.

Customers Affected

All customers with Fourth Account Service enabled.

Release Notes

User Activation Email for Fourth Account Customers

On creation of a new user, if the Fourth Account Service global setting is true for the organisation, an activation email will not be sent from the application, rather this will come from the Fourth Account Service.

Session Expiry for Fourth Account Users

On session expiry, if the user has been provisioned in the Fourth Account Service, on session expiry the user will not be routed to the application login screen, rather they will receive the following message:

Fig 1 – Session Expiry Message

Login for Fourth Account Users

Where a user is identified as a Fourth Account user, login through the main application login screen will not be permitted. The user will receive the following message if attempted:

Fig 2 – User Error Message