IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business: WebSEAL Administration ...

Chapter
6.
Authentication
This
chapter
discusses
how
WebSEAL
maintains
session
state
and
handles
the
authentication
process.
Successful
authentication
results
in
a
Tivoli
Access
Manager
identity
that
represents
the
user.
WebSEAL
uses
this
identity
to
acquire
credentials
for
that
user.
Credentials
are
used
by
the
authorization
service
to
permit
or
deny
access
to
protected
resources.
Topic
Index:
v
“Overview
of
the
authentication
process”
on
page
130
v
“Managing
session
state”
on
page
132
v
“Authentication
configuration
overview”
on
page
140
v
“Basic
authentication”
on
page
145
v
“Forms
authentication”
on
page
147
v
“Client-side
certificate
authentication”
on
page
149
v
“HTTP
header
authentication”
on
page
156
v
“IP
address
authentication”
on
page
159
v
“Token
authentication”
on
page
160
v
“Failover
authentication”
on
page
166
v
“SPNEGO
protocol
and
Kerberos
authentication”
on
page
182
v
“Multiplexing
proxy
agents”
on
page
183
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