Supported Realms

The following realms are supported in the Communications Server:

• file – Stores user information in a file. This is the default realm when you first install the Communications Server.

• ldap – Stores user information in an LDAP directory.

• jdbc – Stores user information in a database.

  In the JDBC realm, the server gets user credentials from a database. The Application Server uses the database information and the enabled JDBC realm option in the configuration file.

  For digest authentication, a JDBC realm should be created with jdbcDigestRealm as the JAAS context. The realm must be referenced in a realm-name element in the web.xml or sip.xml file as is standard practice.

  For identity authentication or P-asserted identity authentication, a JDBC realm should be created with assertedRealm as the JAAS context. The realm must be referenced as described in Configuring sun-sip.xml for Identity Authentication or Configuring sun-sip.xml for P-Asserted Identity Authentication.

• certificate – Sets up the user identity in the Communications Server security context, and populates it with user data obtained from cryptographically verified client certificates.

• solaris – Allows authentication using Solaris username+password data. This realm is only supported on the Solaris operating system, version 9 and above.

For information about configuring realms, see How to Configure a Realm.