User accounts and authentication credentials for Commerce SSO can be implemented in either of two ways:
The Oracle Commerce Platform internal profile repository (used for storing Business Control Center accounts) can be implemented as a standard SQL repository. In this case, the authentication information for Commerce SSO is stored in the repository database.
The internal profile repository can be implemented as a composite repository, where the authentication information is stored in an LDAP directory.
The next section discusses using an LDAP server for authentication.
