Database Authentication Process

The stages in a database authentication process are:

1. The user enters a database account’s user name and password to a Siebel application login form.

2. The Siebel Application Interface passes the user credentials to the Application Object Manager, which in turn passes them to the authentication manager.

3. The authentication manager hashes the password, if Hash User Password is TRUE for the data source specified for the database security adapter, and passes the user credentials to the database security adapter.

4. If the user credentials match a database account, then the user is logged into the database and is identified with a user record whose user ID is the same as the database account’s user name.

   In other words, the database security adapter validates each user’s credentials by trying to connect to the Siebel database.