Sybase Enterprise Portal Security Architecture

Sybase Enterprise Portal provides single sign-on throughout the portal. including transparent authentication to a lot of legacy systems. In the good old days, it was not necessary to have single sign-on. You had a mainframe where you connected with one username and password. With the advent of networks, users suddenly acquired one account after another, with different usernames and passwords to remember. Sybase Enterprise Portal tries to overcome this issue by providing single sign-on. This sounds great, but it also means that as a portal developer or administrator, you have to think about how to set up the security within your portal.

The administrator for security services is called the Portal ...

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