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Supported Credentials

The Java Authentication API supports authentication based on the following general types of credentials requirements:

• Username/Password
• X.509 Certificate
• Custom user attributes

You specify the authentication credentials that are required through the setResponseBuffer() method in the object SmAuthQueryResponse. This object contains a number of constants that indicate the specific credentials that are required or whether no credentials are required.