Authentication Options

Consider how you plan to authorize users as they sign in to your PeopleSoft system. Do you want to store and maintain the PeopleSoft user passwords within a PeopleSoft database, or do you plan to take advantage of existing user profiles in an external directory server?

PeopleSoft-Based Authentication

This option is, generally, the way PeopleSoft customers have authorized users in previous releases. PeopleSoft user passwords are stored and maintained solely within PeopleSoft. Although this method does not require a large amount of storage, it does add administration issues, mainly because PeopleSoft passwords are yet another password users need to remember.

With this option there are only two database-level IDs, the access ID and the connect ID. The passwords reside in the PSOPRDEFN along with the other user information.

Directory-Based Authentication

You can also use a central repository for user information in a directory server that uses the LDAP protocol.

The advantage of this option is that a user has one user ID and password that allows access to numerous software systems.