User Access and Permissioning Management

The application uses a realm based on unique authentication and authorization for its users. Realm is a security policy domain defined for the application server. It is used to authenticate and authorize users of the application .

SAML Realm is selected based on the Identity Provider (IDP) during the installation. The application application is accessed using the following realm that you have selected during the installation of the application:
  • SAMLRealm: The SAMLRealm uses an identity provider (IDP) Identity Management system to support the SAML2.0 protocol for user authentication. Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows identity providers (IDP) to pass authorization credentials to service providers (SP). IDP acts as the Single Sign-On (SSO) service. Users and Groups are created in the IDP.

The following image illustrates the authentication and authorization process in the application.

Figure 6-2 Authentication and Authorization process


Authentication and Authorization process