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WebSphere Message Brokers
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Authentication

Authentication is establishing the identity of a user or system and verifying that the identity is valid.

In the Broker, Authentication is a process of passing the Source Type and Token to an external authenticator. For more information about Source Type and Token, see Identity.

Diagram showing the flow of identity authentication.

The external identity provider checks the identities and returns a value to report whether or not the identity is authentic. If the identity is not authentic a security exception is raised.

Some identity providers, including LDAP, support only a single type of authentication token. If a token of another type is passed in, an exception is raised. For example, LDAP supports only a usernameAndPassword token.

If you want to use LDAP to authenticate an incoming identity token, the LDAP server must be LDAP V3.

Related concepts
Identity
Identity mapping
Authorization
Identity propagation
Security profiles
Security exception processing
Related tasks
Configuring identity
Configuring authentication
Configuring identity mapping
Configuring a security profile
Configuring authorization
Configuring a message flow for identity propagation
Setting up message flow security
Related reference
mqsicreateconfigurableservice command
mqsideleteconfigurableservice command
mqsichangeproperties command
mqsireportproperties command
MQInput node
HTTPInput node
HTTPRequest node
MQOutput node
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