Integrate with OpenID authentication
OpenID provides decentralized user management. Users can select an identity provider to host their profile information, including user ID and password.
- Google and Yahoo use OpenID.
- Twitter and Facebook use OAuth.
HCL WebSphere Portal provides a trust association interceptor to handle the communication between identity providers and Portal as the service provider. HCL WebSphere Portal trusts the identity provider and grants the user entrance. Trust requires a binding between the local Portal account and a remote identity provider account. We can request additional validation from the users, and have internal accounts for the users. The binding is stored in a user attribute, which requires a writable user repository. We can give all users of an identity provider access to a Portal environment as an identified user. We grant special access rights to these users without requiring them to register with HCL WebSphere Portal.
See:
- Configure OpenID authentication
- Modify the list of OpenID providers
- Configure transient users
- Disable transient users and OpenID authentication
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