Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) provides services to enable single sign-on to end users for enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions. The SSO system maps Microsoft® Windows® accounts to back-end credentials. SSO simplifies the management of user IDs and passwords, both for users and administrators. It enables users to access back-end systems and applications by logging on only once to the Windows network.

This section provides conceptual information about Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO), its components, and includes some sample scenarios of how you can use SSO.

This section contains:

• Planning for Enterprise Single Sign-On
• About Enterprise Single Sign-On
• Best Practices for Enterprise Single Sign-On Accounts
• Enterprise Single Sign-On Scenarios
• Enterprise Single Sign-On Auditing
• Enterprise Single Sign-On Security
• Using Enterprise Single Sign-On Tools
• Specifying Single Sign-On Administrators and Affiliate Administrators Accounts
• Installing Enterprise Single Sign-On
• Managing the Enterprise Single Sign-On System
• Enabling SSL for Enterprise Single Sign-On
• Managing the Master Secret
• Configuring the Enterprise Single Sign-On Tickets
• Managing Affiliate Applications
• Managing User Mappings