Use this information to access information that supports the single signon solution and its underlying technologies.
View this page to find links to other resources for learning more about single signon, Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM), Network authentication services, IBM® Directory Server, Digital Certificate Manager, and other related information. As the use of single signon has become more prevalent, information resources have also become more available.
Here is a small list of other resources that you can review to learn more about digital certificates and how you can use them to enhance your System i™ platform security policy:
Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM)
Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) is a mechanism for mapping a person or entity (such as a service) to the appropriate user identities in various user registries throughout the enterprise. The System i platform uses EIM to enable i5/OS® interfaces to authenticate users through network authentication service. System i models and applications can also accept Kerberos tickets and use EIM to find a user ID on this system associated with the Kerberos principal.
Network authentication services
This topic provides information about configuring network authentication service on the System i platform. Network authentication service enables a System i model to participate in an existing Kerberos network. When used with EIM, network authentication service provides single signon for a network.
IBM Directory Server for iSeries™ (LDAP)
This topic provides configuration and conceptual information for LDAP, also referred to as Directory Services. EIM uses the LDAP server to save and manage the EIM data and mapping associations.
This topic discusses digital certificates and the increasing number of uses for digital certificates to provide enhanced network security measures.