Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Administration Reference

Authentication Context

This attribute defines the service 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. The options are:

Supported

Select the check box next to the authentication context class if the service 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

Level

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