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Collect User Credentials Using a Custom Authentication Scheme

CA SiteMinder® uses an authentication scheme to collect user credentials and determine identity of a user at login time. Once a user is identified, CA Identity Manager generates a personalized User Console that is based on the privileges of the user.

You can implement any CA SiteMinder® authentication scheme to protect a CA Identity Manager Environment.

For example, you can implement an HTML Forms Authentication Scheme, which collects credentials in an HTML form. Using an HTML form lets you create a login page that may include branding elements, such as a company logo, and links to the self-registration and forgotten password pages.

Note: For information about authentication schemes, see the CA CA SiteMinder® Policy Server Configuration Guide.

Follow these steps:

  1. Log in to one of the following interfaces:

    Note: For information about using these interfaces, see the documentation for the version of CA SiteMinder® that you are using.

  2. Create an authentication scheme as described in the CA CA SiteMinder® Policy Server Configuration Guide.
  3. Modify the realm that protects the appropriate CA Identity Manager Environment to use the authentication scheme you created in Step 1.

    The realm name has the following format:

    Identity Manager-environment_ims_realm

    Note: If you configured support for public tasks, you see an additional realm, Identity Manager-environment_pub_realm. This realm uses an anonymous authentication scheme to enable unknown users to use the self-registration and forgotten password features without supplying credentials. Do not modify the authentication schemes for these realms.