About Siebel Security Adapters

When you install your Siebel Business Applications, these security adapters are provided for user authentication:

• Database security adapter (selected by default). For more information, see About Database Authentication.

• LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) security adapter. For more information, see About Authentication for LDAP Security Adapter.

The security adapter is a plug-in to the authentication manager. The security adapter uses the credentials entered by a user (or supplied by an authentication service) to authenticate the user, as necessary, and allow the user access to the Siebel application.

You can implement a security adapter other than one of those provided by Siebel Business Applications provided the adapter you implement supports the Siebel Security Adapter Software Development Kit. For more information, see Security Adapter SDK.

You can implement LDAP authentication for application object manager components and for EAI components. Do not use the LDAP security adapter to authenticate access for batch components such as, for example, the Communications Outbound Manager. Configure batch components to use the database security adapter instead. Batch components access the Siebel database directly and, as a result, must use the database security adapter. Note also that Siebel Server infrastructure and system management components such as Server Manager, Server Request Broker, and Server Request Processor access the Siebel database directly. For this reason, these components cannot use the LDAP security adapter.