IBM WebSphere V5.0 Security: WebSphere Handbook Series

4.5. Login facilities

The J2EE Specification defines the following types of authentication methods.

• Basic authentication

• Digest authentication

• Form based authentication

• Client Certificate based authentication

For a brief description of each type of authentication, see 4.2.1, “Configuring Web module security” on page 46.

For any type of authentication methods to work, at least one security constraint should be defined for the requested Web resources and Global Security must be enabled for the application server.

For instructions on how to define security constraints for Web resources, see 4.2.1, “Configuring Web module security” on page 46.

For instructions on how to enable Global Security on the server, please refer to 10.2, “WebSphere Global Security” ...