Users Guide

Conguring CMC For Single Sign-On Or Smart

Card Login

This section provides information to congure CMC for Smart Card login and Single Sign-On (SSO) login for Active Directory users.

Starting with CMC version 2.10, CMC supports Kerberos based Active Directory authentication to support Smart Card and SSO logins.

SSO uses kerberos as an authentication method allowing users who have signed in to the domain to have an automatic or single sign-on to

subsequent applications such as Exchange. For single sign-on login, CMC uses the client system’s credentials, which are cached by the

operating system after you log in using a valid Active Directory account.

Two-factor-authentication, provides a higher-level of security by requiring users to have a password or PIN and a physical card containing a

private key or digital certicate. Kerberos uses this two-factor authentication mechanism allowing systems to prove their authenticity.

NOTE: Selecting a login method does not set policy attributes with respect to other login interfaces, for example, SSH. You must

set other policy attributes for other login interfaces as well. If you want to disable all other login interfaces, navigate to the

Services page and disable all (or some) login interfaces.

Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 can use Kerberos as

the authentication mechanism for SSO and smart card login.

For information on Kerberos, see the Microsoft website.

Topics:

• System Requirements

• Prerequisites For Single Sign-On Or Smart Card Login

• Conguring CMC SSO Or Smart Card Login For Active Directory Users