The Portal Server uses the Access Manager APIs for authentication, single sign-on, session, profile, and logging.
In general, most development work for a portal developer in the Access Manager area will be to customize the authentication interfaces. The following table explains the authentication development tasks and where to go for the information.
Table 1–1 Authentication Development Tasks
If you want to |
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Change the look and feel of the authentication screen | |
Enable or disable authentication modules | |
Add a custom authentication module |
Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 Developer’s Guide. By default, the Access Manager supplies authentication modules for the following types of logins: Anonymous, Certificate, LDAP, Membership, RADIUS, SafeWord, SecureID, and UNIX. |