AEM Author login - Skip

[Singaiah_Chintalapudi]

Hi,

We want to generate preview urls for our business folks. We've configured the Apache/Dispatcher to generate the preview urls from author. However, for the first time, it is asking for login.

Is there any way to skip this login?

Thanks.

[Techaspect_Solu · Accepted solution]

Hi noksc,

Generally for author instances even if it is configured with Apache/Dispatcher,it will ask for login for the first time.

If you need to avoid the login you need to configure the publish instance.

Thanks,

Techaspect Solutions.

[Jörg_Hoh]

I don't think that this is a correct answer. Recommending to use a publish instance for preview does not help the requester.

noksc​ On authoring you are required to authenticate, otherwise everyone knowing such a URL could access content, which is potentially not active yet. Depending on the way how you reach your authoring instance (access from the intranet only or from the internet) information can leak which should not leak. So there is a good reason, why even the read access to pages should be restricted.

On the other hand the license contract between you/your customer and Adobe can contain a restriction on named user on authoring instances; if you allow business people to review content without having a named account on authoring, you could breach the contract.

If you just want to avoid the login screen, single sign on is probably the best and easiest solution to your problem. Because then the business people will only be redirected a few times and then they can see the page they want to preview.

kind regards,
Jörg