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FME Flow 2023.2.1Build 23774 I’m planning on upgrading FME Form / Flow this weekend which includes fixing the following vulnerabilities detected from our internal Pen Test. USR-640 Email Servers Advertise Software Type and Version Removing the software banner from the email server is typically done in the configuration file, for example sendmail.cf or postfix.conf.Is it possible to fix this and where would the file(s) be located?What change should take place? USR-622 HSTS Missing from HTTPS ServerIs it simply enough to add the following to the web.xml config file? <!-- Enable HSTS --><filter> <filter-name>httpHeaderSecurity</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.HttpHeaderSecurityFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>hstsEnabled</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>hstsMaxAgeSeconds</param-n

Dear reader,  I want to know if it is possible (if yes, how) to connect FME with an Azure File Storage with OAuth. The Azure connection transformer, AzureFileStorageConnector seem to not have a Oauth connection possible. Is this true and are there other ways to make an Oauth connection to Azure File Storage in FME Desktop? 

On fme server, web connections we can authorise the named connections as various accounts. How can we check what accounts these are currently authorised as?  Thanks

Is it possible to run workspaces in FME Server as different user accounts i.e. service accounts? I am aware of running FME Services Engine as a different account. The issue there is that over time you will have to grant this account access to a lot of different resources and this would not be good cyber-security practice.

Hi everyone, This question is about the detailed permissions user/role management interface.We’ve been facing issues finding all permissions required to run a specific workspace, like allowing services, access to shared ressources data and to specific connexions.  The question is: Is there a hint to grant or list all these needed permissions to run a specific workspace ?  Thank’s in advance. Kevin

We are upgrading to FME Flow 2024 and wanting to make some improvements. As part of this we want to know if we can have a user upload workbenches to FME Flow. Then login to FME Flow with their user account, but somehow build automations, streams, apps, and scheduled jobs to run under a different user account. We are trying to migrate from putting the all the running automations, schedules, and other items under individual user accounts. Instead we want to assign to a departmental account. Since we have FME Flow tied into our Active Directory this will prevent any permission issues of jobs not working when an employee leaves the company and their AD account is suspended. I didn’t really want to have every user login to FME Flow with the departmental user account. Then we won’t keep the individual repositories for workspaces and will become a mess. I know the GUI/Web Front End as-is doesn’t support this but trying to decide what approach I could do to solve this.My easiest thought is to

Running 2023.2 (both Flow and Form) and I have SAML setup, configured, and working on Flow.  However, in Form, when I add a FME Flow Connection - the SAML drop down under Authentication is missing even though the documentation says it should be there.What am I missing?? Missing SAML option in Authentication drop down FME Flow:Our FME Flow site with SAML enabled Documentation:Documentation 

Hi all, New user here - trying to get a support-only role set up for a few on my team in FME Form. We sometimes have jobs that need to be resubmitted and would like the support role to have the ability to do this but to NOT be able to edit the workspaces or automations at all. I have played around with editing the role permissions and no matter what I try, the users are not able to resubmit jobs. They can get to the job and view logs but get an ‘Unauthorized request by user due to lack of permissions...’ error. Has anyone experienced something like this or have any idea on what permission set would be tied to resubmitting jobs?Thank you!

ArcGIS Server can be configured to disallow administrative tasks from being conducted via REST. Is there something similar with an FME Flow that has a proxy server to do something similar--disallowing administrative logons via the proxy server (direct logon to FME Core machine only)?

Is TLS 1.3 supported for FME 2023.2.1?How do you go about finding this out? ThanksKeith

We currently have FME-supplied Flexnet running on a Windows server and would like to use the same daemon to licence another product. I have checked in the manual and the suggestion is that I simply need to tweak the other product licence file to point at a different port. However as the current Flexnet install does not show FME as he vendor file, when I try adding a vendor file it causes and error as it can’t find the FME licence file. I did put the other product’s licence file in the same folder as the FME file. I have also spotted a post that suggested adding the second products licence to the same file with FME pointing at the default port (27000) and the other product point at a second port.Can you advise what is the best approach?ThanksChris

Hello,FME Desktop 2022.2.5, using OpenSSL 3.0.8.0, is being flagged by Defender as having three weaknesses: CVE-2023-0464, CVE-2023-0465 and CVE-2023-0466. I can't find anything here about these three: Is there anything known about them? CVE-2023-0465 and CVE-2023-0466 are being re-analyzed, so I appreciate that we need to wait for the outcome of that analysis, but CVE-2023-0464 could potentially be quite harmful.  Thanks,Stefan

In case you missed it you can now access web connection and database connection details in python now.Using the SystemCaller and PythonCallers in the past have always enabled remote code execution but since FME 2023 now your connections are also exposed. Just a reminder to never run what you don’t trust. 

Hi there, we are looking at making an OAuth2 connection so that we can pull back JSON files from our Asset Management System in TechOne so that we can then populate our SQL data. I thought FME Workbench would be a lot cleaner than using Python, however I am struggling to connect when setting up a web connection. I receive “an error has occurred” when testing. Out of the three requirements I am unable to set the third one, which is most important. This being grant_type in the body needs to be set to “client_credentials”. Is there any way to change this? I read that you can’t so trying to see if there is a workaround.I read online some are suggesting a REST API but not sure if that’s the way to go in FME Workbench.Regards,Josh 

Hi all.Our FME Servers using version 2022.2.x have been running fine for over a year now, but suddenly (in the last month or so) the existing server apps have begun to fail, stating missing token permission to server and database connections as the cause.What’s causing this sudden change in behaviour ?The server apps have been running without problems until this started.Cheers. EDIT: It worked June 27 but failed June 28.

I am making a self service map generator workspace app. My want is to be able to verify a username by using either SSO/Windows authentication. then I have a script that has outputted all the groups and its users in our ArcPortal in a spreadsheet. so I can relate their username to the group they’re in which then I’ll use a testfilter as to what layers each group is allowed to use in their map. Unless there’s an easier way to go about this?

As we all know, FME supports use of Python in workbenches, either via PythonCaller, scripted parameters, etc. The risk I see though is, that unexperienced user or malicious insider could potentially run Python code with access to Operating System commands (os.system for example) and create some damages (delete shared data folder contents, remove some files or corrupt Engine host, map external drives and copy data there, etc., you name it).What are the best practices to restrict access to this type of Python modules? Is there any built-in functionality in FME Flow that could help to address this security concern?

Hi,I have a basic outline of how I would do this with FME Rest API, but wondering if anyone else has done it already in a comprehensive fashion, or whether Safe may have already created something for it? @siennaatsafe We are moving from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (new name: Entra ID)  in FME Flow. I just need to be able to move all user content and roles to a new AAD (new name: ME-ID) user.For instance:group: FME from AD already exists, but I am going to import group: FME from AAD and then switch all the content and role capabilities for all the underlying users. Happy to take anyone's learnings as well, just to ensure we don’t overlook anything? Cheers,Todd

Hi everyone, is there a way how to integrate Flow Apps through iframe into another web site page. There is a block in CORS setting Flow Apps strict-origin-when-cross-origin. Any idea? Kindly regards

I am starting with FME Server and can someone help me understand and learnI have a download process that runs on a virtual machine with Windows Server 2019 data center (Server 1) and it must write a file to a disk of another virtual machine that also has Windows Server 2019 data center (Server 2), but I gives permissions error. I understand that the process is executed with a user created in the FME Server, in this case of type System.My doubts are:Should the user created on the FME Server also be created as a user on Server 1 and have write permissions to the Server 2 disk?Should the user be changed in FME Server to Directory Server type or is it not necessary?

I am trying to create FME Flow backup in order to upgrade it to the newer version.Current version is FME Server 2020.2. I am getting the following error:Tried many times and cleaned drives a bit. Previous backup was about 100 Mb. So it should be more than enough space for the new backup:  What can be wrong, how I can fix this? Thank you in advance.

I am trying to add a user to a Workspace in FME Flow 2023.1. I get a message ‘Parameter Validation Error’ when I click OK.

Hi I am not sure what to do at this stage and was wondering if anyone had any insight. I tried to enrol to do an online course and created an account using my work email. I have not received any emails to verify the account and I have tried to have a verification and password reset email sent with no luck either. I have sent an email to info@FME with no response as well. I tried to recover my old password from a FME account using my home email address as well with no response. Email addresses are correct, and I have check SPAM folders. Any suggestions on who to contact at this stage? Regards Mark

I have an FME role where I want all users assigned to it to be able to access all of the items in Repositories and Schedules by default. At this time (FME Flow 2023.2), it appears I have to add any newly published workspace or schedule to the role for users in that role to see it. Yes, I can “Select All” but our respositories and schedules are dynamic and it would be nice to “set it and forget it” rather than have to manually intervene on a regular basis. Is it possible? Hoping I am missing something.

I am using FME Flow 2021.  Is there a way to add Active Directory User Names and credentials into FME Flow? Sort of like SSL/SSO with ArcGIS Enterprise.  My goal would be to be able to use the same user credentials I use on our network for logging into FME Flow.  Currently, my FME Flow has a domain user name, but the user names in FME Flow are built in.