Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On
Administrator's Guide
Release 3.0.9 Part Number A88732-01 |
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This chapter explains how to use Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On to log in to partner and external applications.
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The Administer Partner Applications page is used to add, edit, or delete a partner application. Partner applications delegate authentication services to the Login Server. The user logs in to a partner application by providing the username and password for the Login Server when required. The Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On feature of the Login Server ensures that, regardless of how many partner applications are accessed through the Login Server, the user has to provide a username and password only once to the Login Server for that Login Server session.
Table 4-1 described the fields in the Administer Partner Applications page.
Field | Description |
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Add Partner Application |
Click this link to create a new partner application. |
Edit/Delete Partner Applications |
Displays existing partner applications. You can: |
The Administer External Applications page is used to add, edit, or delete an external application. External applications are Web-based applications that perform their own username and password authentication through HTML login forms. External applications that use HTML login forms include Yahoo! Mail and Oracle Mobile.
After you add an external application to the Login Server, users can provide their username and password for the application to the Login Server's password store. To store a password, the user selects the Remember My Login Information For This Application checkbox when logging into the external application through the Login Server. Once the username and password are stored, the user is not prompted for them when logging into the application.
Table 4-2 describes the fields in the External Applications page.
Field | Description |
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Add External Application |
Click this link to create a new external application. |
Edit/Delete External Applications |
Displays existing external applications. You can: |
Partner applications delegate authentication services to the Login Server. A user logs into a partner application using the same username and password that was used for the Login Server. After a user is logged on to the Login Server, the partner application does not request further authentication from the user.
External applications, by comparison, are not fully integrated into Oracle9iAS Portal. Instead, they perform their own authentication. When they are registered with the Login Server, they are visible in Oracle9iAS Portal as links in the External Applications portlet. Adding an external application enables the Login Server to submit an HTML login form with the user's credentials to the application.
To add a partner or external application:
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Partner applications are added in the Create Partner Application page.
Table 4-3 describes the fields in the Create Partner Application page.
Perform the following steps to add a partner application using Oracle9iAS Portal.
The Create Partner Application page displays.
External applications are added in the Create External Application page.
Table 4-4 describes the fields in the Create External Application page.
Perform the following steps to add an external application from Oracle9iAS Portal.
The Create External Application page displays.
If the application uses the Basic authentication method, the User Name/ID Field Name should be empty.
If the application uses the Basic authentication method, the Password Field Name should be empty.
If the application uses the Basic authentication method, these fields should be empty.
The following example shows the source for the values that are used for the External Application Login section for Yahoo! Mail.
<form method=post action="http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?6p4f5s403j3h0" autocomplete=off name=a> ... <td><input name=login size=20 maxlength=32></td> .... <td><input name=passwd type=password size=20 maxlength=32></td> ... <input type=checkbox name=".persistent" value="Y" >Remember my ID & password ... </form>
The source provides values for the following:
Login URL: http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?6p4f5s403j3h0
login
passwd
POST
.persistent Y
[off]
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The Edit Partner Application page is used to edit configuration information for external applications.
The Edit Partner Application page contains all of the fields that are in the Create Partner Application page, plus three additional display fields in the Partner Application Login section. The additional display fields are described in Table 4-5.
Perform the following steps to edit a partner application from Oracle9iAS Portal.
The Edit Partner Application page displays.
The Edit External Application page is used to edit configuration information for external applications.
Perform the following steps to edit an external application from Oracle9iAS Portal.
The Edit External Application page displays.
The Edit External Applications Portlet Settings page is used to add external applications to the External Applications portlet.
Table 4-6 describes the fields in the Edit External Applications Portlet Settings page.
Perform the following steps to access the Edit External Applications Portlet Settings page.
By default, the external applications portlet is located on the Administer tab of the Oracle9iAS Portal home page and is called External Applications
The Edit External Applications Portlet Settings page displays.
The External Application Login page is used to specify your username and password for the application. If you select the Remember My Login Information For This Application checkbox, Oracle9iAS Portal automatically logs on for you each time you launch the application.
Table 4-7 described the fields in the External Application Login page.
Perform the following steps to access the External Application Login page.
"Adding External Applications to the External Applications Portlet" for information about adding an external application to the external Applications portlet.
See Also:
The External Application Login page displays.
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