44 Enterprise Business Portals II with IBM Tivoli Access Manager
The portal server issues a logon ticket after successful initial authentication. This
logon ticket is stored as a cookie in the clients Web browser. Subsequent
authentication to applications is done through the logon ticket, so after initial
logon, no further user logons are required as long as the ticket is valid.
The logon ticket contains only public information:
User ID
Validity period
Issuing system
Digital signature issued by the portal server
Single sign-on
The single sign-on term is often used in conjunction with security. It is one of the
requirements for a portal, especially an enterprise portal.
The definition of single sign-on (SSO) says that a user is not required ...