What are the available authentication mechanisms?
Authentication can be fulfilled in a number of ways.Factonomy can use of LDAP for authentication. This reduces the requirement for users to have multiple username/passwords across multiple systems the system would include the necessary mechanisms to authenticate users against and LDAP database. Alternatively Factonomy can authenticate username and password against a local datasource typically the MS SQL database holding all of the other system information.
FAQs - Authentication
- What are the available authentication mechanisms?
- Where is authentication data stored?
- Is stored authentication data encrypted?
- How is system integration into a ‘single-sign-on’ environment achieved?
- What directory services can the system interface with?
- How is authentication handled in Client Access Mode?
- How is authentication handled in Web access mode?
- How is network traffic encrypted?
- How are firewalls dealt with?
- How is data encrypted in a typical Intranet?
