Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Administration Reference

Authentication Context

This attribute defines the identity provider's default authentication context class (method of authentication). This method will always be called when the service provider sends an authentication request. This value also specifies the authentication context used by the service provider when an unknown user tries to access a protected resource.

Supported

Select the check box next to the authentication context class if the identity provider supports it.

Context Reference

The Liberty-defined authentication context classes are:

  • Mobile Contract

  • Mobile Digital ID

  • MobileUnregistered

  • Password

  • Password-ProtectedTransport

  • Previous-Session

  • Smartcard

  • Smartcard-PKI

  • Software-PKI

  • Time-Sync-Token

Key

Choose the OpenSSO Enterprise authentication type to which the context is mapped.

Value

Type the OpenSSO Enterprise authentication option.

Level

Choose a priority level for cases where there are multiple contexts.