Directory Server Integration

PeopleSoft recognizes that your site uses software produced by numerous vendors, and each different product requires security authorizations for users. Most of these products adhere to the model that includes user profiles and roles (or groups) to which users belong. PeopleSoft enables you to integrate your authentication scheme for the PeopleSoft system with your existing infrastructure. You can reuse user profiles and roles that are already defined within an LDAP directory server.

Organizations typically store user profiles in a central repository that serves user information for all of the programs that require it. The central repository is typically an LDAP directory server.

A directory server enables you to maintain a single, centralized user profile that you can use across all of your PeopleSoft and non-PeopleSoft applications. This approach reduces redundant maintenance of user information stored separately throughout your enterprise, and it reduces the possibility of user information getting out of synchronization.

You always maintain permission lists and roles by using PeopleTools Security. However, you can maintain user profiles in PeopleTools Security or with an external directory server.