Configuring the Application User

This topic describes how to configure the directory application user. The application user is not an actual user who logs into an application; it is a special user defined to handle access to the directory. The application user is defined as the only user with search, read and write privileges to the LDAP directory. This minimizes the level of access of all other users to the directory and the administration required to provide such access.

The application user must be defined in the following authentication strategies that implement a Siebel security adapter:

• Security adapter authentication: LDAP, some custom security adapter implementations

  You do not have to define an application user if you implement a database security adapter.

• Web SSO authentication

  Whether or not an application user must be defined depends on how you have implemented the Web SSO solution.