About Self-Registration

Several Siebel Business Applications allow users to self-register as default functionality. This topic observes the following principles about self-registration functionality that is provided by default with your Siebel Business Applications:

• Self-registration applies to Siebel customer and partner applications.

• You can configure any eligible Siebel application to either allow or disallow self-registration.

• You can implement Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) security adapter authentication with Siebel Business Applications for which you allow self-registration.

To implement self-registration for applications that use Web SSO user authentication, you are responsible for configuring the self-registration functionality at the Web site level and for synchronizing the user data with the Siebel database. Configuration guidelines are not provided in Siebel Business Applications documentation. Self-registration is not feasible when you implement database authentication.

Note: If you implement an adapter-defined user name in your user authentication environment, then you cannot implement tools that allow users' Siebel user IDs stored in the directory to be managed from within Siebel Business Applications, including user self-registration. For information about user authentication, see Chapter 5, "Security Adapter Authentication".