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Operating System Authentication

The Siebel Analytics Server supports Windows NT and Windows 2000 Unified Logon. If a user is configured on a trusted Windows domain, a Siebel Analytics Server user of the same name does not need to be authenticated by the Siebel Analytics Server; the user has already been authenticated by Windows and is therefore trusted to log in to the Siebel Analytics Server.

When operating system authentication is enabled, users connecting to the Siebel Analytics Server should not type a user ID or password in the logon prompt. If a user enters a user ID and (optionally) a password in the logon prompt, that user ID and password overrides the operating system authentication and the Siebel Analytics Server performs the authentication.

NOTE:  Operating system authentication cannot be used with Analytics Web. It can only be used with ODBC client applications.

To configure operating system authentication

  1. Enable operating system authentication by specifying the PERFORM_OS_AUTHENTICATION=YES security option in the NQSConfig.INI file. (See Siebel Analytics Installation and Configuration Guide for additional information.)
  2. Create a user in your repository named identically to the user ID in the trusted Windows domain.
  3. Assign the group membership and rights you want the user to have.

    The user is now trusted to log in without any further authentication, provided the request comes from a Windows NT or Windows 2000 session logged in on the trusted domain as the trusted user ID. In other words, users with identical Windows and Siebel Analytics Server user IDs do not need to submit a password when logging in to the Siebel Analytics Server from a trusted domain.

    For more information about Windows and Windows trusted domains, see your Windows NT or Windows 2000 security documentation.


 Siebel Analytics Server Administration Guide
 Published: 11 March 2004