Visual Guard for PB Key Features Authentication
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Authentication in RBAC consists of verifying the identity of the user through a two step process:
• Identification: Stating who you are;
• Authentication: Proving who you are.

Two types of needs:

• You may need to create a list of user accounts/passwords from scratch.
• You may already have Windows accounts stored in Active Directory and need to re-use it at application level.

The solution:

Visual Guard PowerBuilder supports login/passwords authentication.
A user account declared in Visual Guard is available for all your PowerBuilder applications.

It supports the following authentication modes:
• Visual Guard Accounts (created and managed by Visual Guard)
• Windows Accounts (local account or Active Directory account) (coming soon)

Windows accounts/Active Directory

If you use the Windows authentication mechanism, passwords are created, stored and administered in Active Directory. You will be able to re use Windows authentication mechanism to identify users of your applications, and then assign Visual Guard profiles and permissions to this user.

Single sign-on

If you use Active Directory to manage user accounts you may want to implement a single sign-on process: once a user is logged on in a Windows session, any application opens without asking for further credentials.
Visual Guard supports Single Sign-On configurations for Windows accounts.

Visual Guard PowerBuilder Accounts

Visual Guard PowerBuilder has its own membership provider to manage user accounts and passwords.
Credentials are stored in the Visual Guard repository.


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Authentication

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