Valid Credentials

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Valid Credentials

When authentication is required, requests must have a valid Business Analytics session for an existing authenticated user or must supply either user credentials or digital certificate for authentication or an SSO token or ticket for a user that has been authenticated by the SSO solution. Business Analytics uses certificates, tokens or tickets to obtain the user’s identity.

Business Analytics supports the following mechanisms to obtain user credentials or user IDs:

Basic authentication using username and passwords. This is authenticated against the Business Analytics User Repository which may be a database or your LDAP Directory. See Use the Default Business Analytics User Repository for more information.

Note:

This is the only mechanism for obtaining user credentials that is supported by the Business Analytics Mobile apps.

SSL and Certificate authentication where the user identifier in certificate information is configurable. This is authenticated against the Business Analytics User Repository which may be a database or your LDAP Directory, unless Dynamic User Support is enabled. See Use the Default Business Analytics User Repository and Authentication with Digital Certificates/SSL for more information.

Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions which are configurable. With SSO enabled, Business Analytics delegates authentication to the SSO solution. Typically, configuration identifies an SSO token, ticket or cookie that Business Analytics uses to verify authentication with the SSO solution and to obtain the user ID. See Authentication with Single Sign-On Solutions for more information.

If an authenticated request has no Business Analytics session, Business Analytics starts a new session and generates a Business Analytics session cookie. See Sessions and Timeouts for more information.

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