October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 6m
English
book
Document Management Using WebSphere Portal V5.0.2 and DB2 Content Manager V8.2
by John Ganci, Leonard Fox, James Hutton, Thomas Jensen, Andrzej Stec, Eric Zhang
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Chapter 2. Architecture guidelines and technology options 83
Credential Vault
The WebSphere Portal Credential Service and Credential Vault provides a
mechanism for storing external application credentials.
Typically, authentication with stored credentials to external applications is
conducted as the credentials (username or password) differ from the user’s
WebSphere Portal credentials. The credential vault is essentially a way of storing
usernames and passwords, which can be programmatically retrieved and used in
tactical authentications.
The WebSphere Portal Credential Service and Credential Vault also provide a
mechanism that assists a por ...