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Each SiteMinder Authentication Scheme is an instance of a shared library that supports the Authentication API provider interface.
Typically, when you define an authentication scheme in the Administrative UI, you accept the default library for the authentication scheme type you want to use. For example, if you want to use an authentication scheme based on the HTML Form Template, you would accept its default library, smauthhtml.
But if you want your authentication scheme to support custom authentication functionality, you must build a new library for the authentication scheme. You build an authentication scheme library using the Authentication API.
The following figure shows how the authentication scheme library is used in the authentication process:
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