Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Administration Guide

Supported Directives

This attribute allows you to specify a policy-related directive for a resource. If a service provider wants to use an unsupported directive, the request will fail. The following table describes the available options. .

Table 9–2 Policy-Related Directives

Directive 

Purpose 

AuthenticateRequester

The Discovery Service should include a SAML assertion containing an AuthenticationStatement in its query responses to enable the client to authenticate to the service instance hosting the resource.

AuthenticateSessionContext

The Discovery Service should include a SAML assertion containing a SessionContextStatement in its query responses that indicate the status of the session.

AuthorizeRequestor

The Discovery Service should include a SAML assertion containing a ResourceAccessStatement in its responses that indicate whether the client is allowed to access the resource.

EncryptResourceID

The Discovery Service should encrypt the resource identifier in responses to all clients. 

GenerateBearerToken

For use with Bearer Token Authentication, the Discovery Service should generate a token that grants the bearer permission to access the resource.