The SMAPI can retrieve authentication information and proxy that information to secured assets, facilitating single sign-on to back-end data sources. The Enterprise Security SMAPI implements user-, role-, and asset-based authentication information management. You must write your own custom application that invokes the API that retrieves the proxy authentication information to implement single-sign on capabilities.
Proxy authentication information identifies a user via user name and password (credentials), and the URL used to connect to the data source or service. When the user logs in to a system secured with Enterprise Security, the proxy authentication information can be retrieved from the ACDB and presented to the back-end data source to authenticate the user without requiring the user to reenter his user name or password.
To use proxy authentication information for single sign-on, the data source (asset) must first be defined in the ACDB. The proxy authentication mechanism merely determines whether the user credentials allow him or her to access the back-end data source; it does not enforce the user’s privileges to read, write, update, or execute commands on the data source.
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