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System Preferences

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You can set various authentication-related system preferences for Siebel applications in the Application Administration screen. System preferences are enterprise-wide settings.

Following are authentication-related system preferences:

SecExternalUserAdministration. (TRUE or FALSE) In a security adapter authentication architecture, you must set this preference to FALSE to allow administration of the directory through Siebel applications. When an administrator then adds a user or changes a password from within a Siebel application or a user self-registers, the change is propagated to the directory.

NOTE:  A non-Siebel security adapter must support the SetUserInfo and ChangePassword methods to allow dynamic directory administration. For information about implementing a non-Siebel security adapter, see Security Adapters for External Authentication.

SecThickClientExtAuthent. (TRUE or FALSE) You must set the SecThickClientExtAuthent system preference to TRUE to allow security adapter authentication for users who log in through the Siebel Dedicated Web Client. This system preference has no effect on security adapter authentication for users who log in on a Web Client.
Security Adapter CRC. You can implement checksum validation to verify that each user gains access to the database through the correct security adapter. This preference contains the value calculated by the checksum utility for the applicable security adapter DLL. If you leave this value empty, the system does not perform the check. If you upgrade your system, you must recalculate and replace the value in this system preference.

For information about checksum validation, see Checksum Validation.

To edit a system preference

Log in as an administrator to a Siebel employee application.
Navigate to the Application Administration screen.
From the Show drop-down list, choose System Preferences.
In the System Preferences list, select a system preference to edit.
Edit the entry in the System Preference Value column, and then step off of the record to save it.
Restart the Siebel Server.

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