About Portal Server Proxy Authentication

Portal Server Proxy authentication substitutes a proxy user ID for the individual user’s ID. When the user logs in to the portal service, the portal service authenticates the user's own ID for accessing the portal service. If any channels in the portal desktop are configured for proxy authentication, the portal service uses the proxy user ID to authenticate the channel services, and the user' information appears in the channel sections of the portal desktop.

To set up portal service proxy authentication, you use the Access Manager console to configure a portal SSO adaptor for each service. You must also provision each user account with the LDAP attributes required for proxy authentication.

For the evaluation solution, you set up proxy authentication for the sample portal desktops's mail and calendar channels. For the proxy accounts, you use the administrator accounts for the services: the admin account for the mail service, and the calmaster account for the calendar service. Your test user account is already provisioned for these services.