In this chapter, we learned how to switch from the default user authentication mechanism, namely database authentication, to external directory server-based authentication. After exploring the functionality of the security adapter infrastructure, an example configuration for LDAP authentication was discussed.
LDAP authentication is supported for Siebel server software such as application object managers or the Siebel Gateway Name Server. The chapter introduced us to the complete procedure of setting up LDAP authentication for a Siebel application. To support centralized user management for user communities that use "thick clients" such as Developer Web Client or Siebel Tools, we described the procedures to enable LDAP authentication for Siebel clients as well.
To accommodate the requirement to only log in once to the workstation and then access all web applications without having to log in again, we learned how to set up a Siebel application for Web Single-Sign-On.
In the next chapter...