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User Access Authentication

CA SDM Web Services provides two access authentication schemes. They are associated with the new access control and management feature, which uses an access policy.

User Name/Password

Verifies the User Name/Password, as described in previous releases of the product.

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Technology

Verifies that the person requesting the access has ownership of a certain private key.

Important! If you plan to use an application that accesses this version of CA SDM Web Services, we recommend strongly that you first define a Web Service Access Policy, complete with its code value, in CA SDM. A default access policy with a policy code of DEFAULT is available when CA SDM is installed and configured.

More information:

Define an Access Policy