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Setting Up Security Adapter Authentication: A Scenario


This section provides instructions to implement security adapter authentication for a single Siebel application. The implementation uses either the Siebel LDAP adapter or the Siebel ADSI adapter with one of the supported directories described in System Requirements and Supported Platforms for your Siebel application.

Your implementation may include more than one Siebel application, and you may implement components and options that are not included here.

These instructions are intended to allow you to confirm successful implementation of the security adapter with the directory. You should implement this architecture in a development environment before deploying it in a production environment. You can repeat the appropriate instructions here to provide security adapter authentication for additional Siebel applications.

These instructions implement the following basic configuration:

To implement authentication options not included in this implementation, see Authentication Options.

For information about special considerations to implementing user authentication, see User Authentication Issues.

If you use a non-Siebel security adapter, it must support the Siebel Security Adapter Software Developers Kit, described in Security Adapters for External Authentication. You must adapt the applicable parts of the following implementation to your security adapter.

The following installations must be completed before you set up this security adapter authentication environment.

These instructions assume that you are experienced with administering the directory. That is, you can perform tasks such as creating and modifying user storage subdirectories, creating attributes, creating users, and providing privileges to users.

Process of Implementing External Authentication

You must perform the tasks in the following process to implement and test your directory with a Siebel security adapter.


 Security Guide for Siebel eBusiness Applications 
 Published: 23 June 2003