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Configure the Identity Asserter to Challenge Requests for Credentials

To configure the SiteMinder Identity Asserter to challenge requests from users without an existing SiteMinder session ticket (and handle users that do have an existing SiteMinder session), perform the following steps:

• Set the ChallengeForCredentials Agent configuration parameter
• If using advanced authentication, synchronize overlapping settings between the IA and the Web Agent performing advanced authentication
• If using advanced authentication, configure the authentication scheme you want to use

When configured to challenge requests for credentials, the SiteMinder IA supports the following authentication schemes:

• Basic
• Basic over SSL
• HTML Forms
• X509 Client Certificate
• X509 Client Certificate and Basic
• X509 Client Certificate or Basic
• X509 Client Certificate and HTML Forms
• X509 Client Certificate or HTML Forms