Definition and purpose of authentication
Authentication is the process of identifying an individual process or entity that is attempting to log in to a secure domain. Requests for protected resources by unauthenticated users always result in an authentication challenge.
- WebSEAL provides several built-in authentication methods by default.
WebSEAL also provides the flexibility to customize the authentication mechanism.
- The result of successful authentication to WebSEAL is a Verify Identity Access client identity.
- WebSEAL uses this client identity to build a credential for that user.
- The authorization service uses this credential to permit or deny access to protected resources after evaluating the authorization policies governing each object.