March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
17h 10m
English
book
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
by Rufus Credle, Faheem Altaf, Serena Chan, Fernanda Gomes, Sunil Hiranniah, Pralhad Khatri, Shun Zhong Li, Vikrant Mastoli
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606 IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
Figure 10-81 Login as user abc1
10.5.4 Credential Vault
WebSphere offers a Credential Vault as a PortletService. The PortletService
interface of the portlet API enables portlets to use pluggable services like
Credential Vault via dynamic discovery. It provides portlets with a mechanism for
mapping from a user identity to a credential, such as a secret. Therefore, portlets
do not need to store user credentials as part of the user-specific portlet data.
In WebSphere Portal V5, the portal authenticates users using the credentials
stored in vaults.
Back-end single sign-on
Especially by using WebSphere ...