Authentication and Single Signon

PeopleSoft delivers the most common authentication solutions and packages them with your PeopleSoft application. This saves you the trouble of developing your own solutions and saves you time with your security implementation. These prepackaged solutions include PeopleCode that supports basic sign in through HTTP over SSL/TLS (HTTPS), LDAP authentication, and single signon.

Because PeopleSoft applications are designed for internet deployment, many sites must take advantage of the authentication services that exist at the web server level. PeopleSoft takes advantage of HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and digital certificates to secure the transmission of data from the web server to an end user's web browser and also to secure the transmission of data between PeopleSoft servers and third-party servers (for business-to-business processing) over the internet.

PeopleSoft applications support these types of single signon:

• Among PeopleSoft applications.

  A user can signon and be authenticated by one PeopleSoft application server and then, that user can access other PeopleSoft application servers without entering an ID or a password. Although the user is actually accessing different applications and databases, the user navigates seamlessly through the system. Recall that each suite of PeopleSoft applications, such as HCM or CRM, resides in its own database.

• Between PeopleSoft and Oracle applications.

  A user can sign in to either system and freely access the other without having to sign in to the second system.

• Between the desktop and PeopleSoft applications.

  A user can sign in to their computer network and be authenticated by their network credentials and then, that user can freely access all PeopleSoft applications. This is desktop single signon.

See Understanding the Delivered External Authentication Solutions, Understanding Single Signon.