Issue with R Studio Server AD authentication for privileged account

[kpainter]

We are trying to setup R Studio Server (free version) and have ran into problems when logging into the page with a privileged AD account. We have setup a virtual Linux server and have installed the following:

1. yum install R – installed all R packages and dependencies
2. Followed the steps from this link https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download-server/ for RedHat/CentOS 6 and 7

At this time I can access the R Studio sign-in page. Also the server management person who set it up can access the page also and log into the site as well. However I cannot log into the site myself. Please note, for compliance reasons I have to use a privileged AD account instead of my regular one.

The following has been tried to remedy the problem. However without success:

Modified rstudio file at this location/etc/pam.d/ to look like the following:

auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth required pam_ldap.so
account required pam_ldap.so

Copied the R directory from server management support person's folder to mine.

Neither of these attempts has fixed it for me.

Please advise.

[edgararuiz]

Hi @kpainter, I believe that only the Professional version of RStudio Server will allow for AD integration: http://docs.rstudio.com/ide/server-pro/index.html#introduction (see the second bullet list)

This is the section where it walks through how to do that with RStudio Server Pro: http://docs.rstudio.com/ide/server-pro/authenticating-users.html#pam-authentication

If interested, there is a 45-day evaluation license you should be able to use to test the configuration and confirm that it does what you need: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio-server-pro/evaluation/

Hope this helps

[edgararuiz]

I would also like to share a great explanation for why some features are only in the professional version of our products:

Commercial Use of Shiny and R

Dear Mazarick and @Anantadinath, To address each of your concerns. We give away 60-70% of all our engineering work as free and open source software. We support our engineering through the sale of commercial versions of our open source products which are targeting features/capabilities for enterprise deployment. These products have allowed us to make a much larger investment in the open source work as a result. If your organizations can support us through the purchase of our commercial products, it would obviously be a huge help for us. If you are a small or medium business, we have special discounts for organizations who need to run their own infrastructure, and hosted based pricing t…

[kpainter]

Thanks for your reply. I will share this with our team.