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External Authentication Configuration

hDuring the CA Harvest SCM installation, you specify the method your site will use to authenticate users' names and passwords when they attempt to log in to the product: internal (CA Harvest SCM) authentication or external authentication. External authentication uses an authentication server to validate users' credentials (user names and passwords); for example, a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) v3‑compliant LDAP server, such as Novell eDirectory. Optionally, you can configure the CA Harvest SCM server to use mixed-mode authentication where you use an authentication server for authentication of most user accounts, but lets the CA Harvest SCM user administrator create and maintain additional internally authenticated users for CA Harvest SCM.

After installing the product and the Web Interface, you can reconfigure them to use a different authentication mode than the one specified during the installation. You can configure multi-user remote agents, servers, and Web Interface servers to use either internal or external authentication to validate user names and passwords when users attempt to log in to the product.