Integrate with OpenID authentication
Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and other web platforms host information for users and they also provide access to their existing user communities. Reusing these communities on the website can increase acceptance of the business or services.
WebSphere Portal uses OpenID and OAuth to integrate a relationship to an identity provider. Users can select an identity provider to host their profile information, including user ID and password. Google and Yahoo use OpenID. Facebook uses OAuth.
WAS provides a plug-in point, called a trust association interceptor (TAI), to create a trust based on the identity provider information.
Options for integrating external users...
- Bind local portal and a remote identity provider accounts. Allows request of additional validation from users, and to have internal accounts for the users. Binding is stored in a user attribute, which requires a writable user repository.
- Grant access rights to all users of an identity provider without the requiring them to register with WebSphere Portal.
To configure identity providers...
- Configure OpenID authentication
- Modify the list of OpenID providers
- Configure transient users
- Disable transient users and OpenID authentication
Parent: Securing