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Configuring and Administering OracleAS
Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On enables you to establish a unique identity for each user, and tie that
identity to the resources and data sources unique to that user. For example, a user
might log into an environment such as OracleAS Portal, which enables them to access
certain reports and printers for which they have the necessary privileges. When they
choose to run a report from this environment, they can access the necessary data
sources for the report because their data source credentials are stored with the single
user identity used to login to OracleAS Portal. Thus, logging in once provides them
access to all of the resources and data sources they require to run their reports.
Because OracleAS Reports Services provides a flexible approach to security, you can
implement many variations of the configuration described above. For example, you
might choose not to store data source credentials with the single user identity. Or you
might prefer to use direct URLs for launching reports rather than a platform like
OracleAS Portal. If your reports are public and do not require any security, then you
might choose to turn off report security altogether.
This chapter describes how you can implement and administer various configurations
of OracleAS Single Sign-On with OracleAS Reports Services.
■ Prerequisites
10.1 Prerequisites
■ Configuring Out-of-the-Box OracleAS Single Sign-On
■ Administering OracleAS Single Sign-On
■ OracleAS Forms Services Security Considerations
OracleAS Single Sign-On can be implemented only in a secure server environment.
This means that you must have a security policy in place in your Reports Server
configuration file before you can consider implementing OracleAS Single Sign-On
with OracleAS Reports Services.
Note: Security settings are discussed in the following places:
Chapter 3, "Configuring OracleAS Reports Services" tells you how
to specify the Java class that defines the security policy for the
server; Chapter 11, "Deploying Reports in OracleAS Portal" tells
you how to deploy OracleAS Reports Services reports in OracleAS
Portal; Appendix A, "Command Line Options" provides
information about the SSOCONN command line option.
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