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Set Up Authentication Schemes for Back-End Processing

You need to set up several authentication schemes for back-end processing, one for each choice of credentials made available to the user. These schemes enable a user to choose the type of credentials he provides to access a protected resource.

There is one authentication scheme for each type of credentials:

• An HTML Form authentication scheme
• An X.509 Client Cert authentication scheme
• An X.509 Client Cert And Form authentication scheme
• A SecurID HTML Form authentication scheme
• A SafeWord HTML Form authentication scheme
• A Windows authentication scheme

Note: The Basic authentication scheme is a default scheme set up as part of the Policy Server's installation.