And you're using the newer Enterprise Portal 6.0 on a HPUX platform?
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Browse All TopicsI am completely new to SAP. My bread & butter is mostly within Windows application and system engineering / architecture, however I don't know tons about cross platform authentication options.
We have been working with SAP's EP 6.0 (J2EE) on HPUX running Apache web server - there's a desire for Single Sign On - SSO - from a Windows Active Directory network. Has anyone done something like this, and if so, which method or approach did you use?
Info: Large corporate WAN. LDAP and Kerberos available.
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We have implemented EP5 and EP6 with LDAP and SSO .
EP5 on Win2000 > R3/BW on AIX
EP6 on AIX > R3/BW on AIX .
You can authenticate against Microsoft's (LDAP) ADS or some other LDAP implementation (e.g. Novell ) out of the box .
EP6 uses standard JNDI calls to bind to LDAP .
You can do this easily in clear text , but for the next step , SSO, you need to use SSL and certificates . Hence you need a Certificate Authority (SAP Trust Center or Verisign or Thwarte or MS Certificate Center ) to sign certs and use your portal as a Registration Authority ( SAPCRYPOTOLIB s/w allows the J2EE engine behind the portal to issue and accept certificates )
There is so many ways to do it depending on what LDAP / Digital certificate structure your company is using but the most common is :
LDAP - MS ADS
Digital Certifcates - SAP Trust Center or your internal company CA if you have one already (no need to reinvent the wheel)
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by: jkpcsPosted on 2004-02-27 at 10:14:26ID: 10471404
SAP is compatible out of the box with Kerberos. We are implementing that now.