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5.5.2 Passing an unchanged basic authentication header
WebSEAL can be configured to pass the received basic authentication data
unchanged to the junctioned application. If Access Manager and the application
share the same LDAP registry, Access Manager authenticates a user against the
same LDAP attributes as an application performing a regular LDAP bind, that is,
using a main user ID and password. In this case, there is no need to maintain the
TGSO attributes of a user and the main password may be encrypted. However,
basic authentication is the only available authentication method used by
WebSEAL, as WebSEAL has to obtain the BA header values in order to pass
them through.
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