To use the FileLoginModule plug-in, your front-end application must obtain a user name from the person using the Endeca implementation.
This user information can be supplied in a number of ways, such as:
- Requiring X.509 certificates from your users. The contents of the certificate are extracted by using the java.security.cert methods (for Java implementations) or the System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates methods (for .NET implementations).
- Having the user enter the name in an HTML form.
The supplied name will be used to authenticate the user against the password file.