Authentication and Identity Management

Read this topic for a quick overview of the authentication and identity management services provided by Oracle for Cloud Applications.

Standard Authentication for Cloud Applications

Authentication, the process of verifying that a user is who they claim to be, is applied to all users, automated agents, or Web services that access an Oracle Cloud application. User credentials are checked at login and access is then granted or denied. In the standard method of authentication in Oracle Cloud environments, authentication providers validate user and application access based on a user name-password combination. Authentication providers also make user identity information available to other Cloud components when needed.

Identity Store

The Oracle Cloud authentication providers access the LDAP identity store, which is a logical repository of enterprise user identity data. Your LDAP directory stores definitions of LDAP user accounts.

In general, changes you make to user accounts are automatically synchronized between your sales application and your LDAP directory server. But you must also run processes on a daily basis to manage information exchange between your application and your LDAP directory server. For information, see the chapter about setting up application security.