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Creating an Authentication Web Service

Authentication web services enable you to specify general settings for your external user repository, leaving the more detailed settings (like domain specification) to be set in the associated remote authentication sources. This allows you to create different authentication sources to import each domain without having to repeatedly specify all the settings.

Before you create an authentication web service, you must:
  • Install the authentication provider on the computer that hosts the portal or on another computer
  • Create a remote server pointing to the computer that hosts the authentication provider (optional, but recommended)
To create an authentication web service you must have the following rights and privileges:
  • Access Administration activity right
  • Create Web Service Infrastructure activity right
  • At least Edit access to the parent folder (the folder that will store the authentication web service)
  • At least Select access to the remote server that the authentication web service will use
  1. Click Administration.
  2. Open the folder in which you want to store the authentication web service.
  3. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Web Service — Authentication. The Authentication Web Service Editor opens.
  4. On the Main Settings page, complete the following task:
  5. Click the HTTP Configuration page and complete the following task:
  6. Click the Advanced Settings page and complete the following task:
  7. Click the Authentication Settings page and complete the following task:
  8. Click the Debug Settings page and complete the following task:
  9. Click the Properties and Names page and complete the following tasks:

The default security for this authentication web service is based on the security of the parent folder. You can change the security when you save this authentication web service (on the Security tab page in the Save As dialog box), or by editing this authentication web service (on the Security page of the Authentication Web Service Editor).

Portal administrators with at least Select access to this authentication web service can create authentication sources based on the web service.

Parent topic: About Importing and Authenticating Users with Authentication Sources

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