When a user accesses ADSS ADSS Web RA user portal, for instance: https://webra.web.ascertia.com.pk/login, the login screen appears. The user is required to enter an email address upon which the system will identify which mechanism to use according to the configurations of his service plan as shown below:


                                                                 

                                                   


How It Works?


  • If a user is not registered to the application and he clicks on the next button, system will proceed to the 'Password' tab automatically. ADSS Web RA web portal does not indicate if a user exists or not due to security reasons.


  • If a user has selected password as a primary authentication in the service plan, then the user will be required to enter the password after successful authentication, the user will be redirected to login. 


  • After clicking on the 'Next' button, if a user has selected SAML profile as a primary authentication in a service plan then the selected profile IdP screen will pop-up, requiring the user to authenticate after successful authentication and redirecting the user to the login screen. 


  • If a user is blocked by the administrator then the system will pop-up an error once the authentication process is complete. 



TO SIGN UP 


Click the Sign Up button from the ADSS Web RA Web Portal:



           

Fill in all the required fields in the screen, as shown below:


           


Enterprise request form containing the License screen will appear which will contain the following fields:



           


Enterprise License 

Field 

Description 

Name 

Name of the certificate profile for which the enterprise wants to use ADSS Web RA to create certificates

Unlimited 

It is a check-box that can be used to allow a user to create unlimited certificates

Total Certificates 

This field describes the maximum number of certificates that can be generated using this profile

Expiry 

Expiry defines duration for which certificate are required







  • The language drop down will contain values according to the allowed languages configured in the default settings as displayed in the screenshot: 



             


Forgot Password


  • The 'Forgot Password' will only be visible on the login screen to a user, if he has set password as a primary authentication. 
  • If a user has set SAML as a primary authentication, then the 'Forgot Password' option will not appear on the login screen. 
  • If an activated user has SAML as a primary authentication and the administrator changes the primary authentication from SAML to password. In this case, when the user tries to login, the status of the user will be activated but its password will remain empty in the database, while showing the dialog below to the user:




                                                     

                                                         



Once the user clicks on the Resend Email button from the activation link, 




                                                         



  • If an activated user has SAML as a primary authentication and the administrator changes the primary authentication from SAML to password. In this case, when the user tries to login, the status of the user will be activated and if the user has already activated his account, then a 'Password' screen will appear. 


  • If an active user has set password as a primary authentication and the administrator changes its primary authentication from password to SAML. In this case, when a user tries to login then it will activate the SAML authentication. 



User Activation 


  1. When a user enters the email address in the login screen and clicks the 'Next' button, the system requires user activation. A dialog box appears to inform the user requiring him to activate his account to login. The user will click on the 'Resend Email' button to receive instructions to activate their account. 


  1. Once the clicks on the activation link from the email and the user has selected password as the primary authentication, the follow screen will be displayed:


                                               


  • After clicking on the activation link from the email, if SAML is selected as primary authentication, then the following activation screen will be shown:


 


                                           

 

Change Password 


If a user logs in via SAML then 'Change Password' and 'Security Questions' options will be hidden from the left menu as shown below:




                                             


Multiple Enterprises



  • At the time of login, user will use the login details of the enterprise that user has used to login before. 
  • After the successful login, user will switch the enterprise and that enterprise has SAML authentication configured then the user needs to authenticate from SAML before switching users.
  • If a user is logged in via password and tries to switch to an enterprise that is also using password, then the user does not need authentication again.