Signon Method Signon Method
User, Screen,
UseAuthentication or Disabled.
User will cause the system to automatically sign on with a
specific user name. This is the most secure way to configure Webulator/400
because you have control over what AS/400 user profiles people are allowed to
sign on with. If this is specified, it must be followed by a
UserName, which is described below.
Screen will cause people to be presented with an AS/400 signon
screen. They may then type in the AS/400 user and password they want to use
to sign on. This is less secure because the AS/400 user and password are
sent over the TCP/IP network between the browser and the server. It is
recommended that this only be used over internal networks unless secured with
SSL and Commerce Server/400. If Commerce Server/400 is configured to use SSL
for Webulator/400 sessions, all data, including user ids and passwords is
encrypted.
UseAuthentication uses authentication information sent from the
browser as the AS/400 user and password. This is slightly more secure than
Screen because the user and password are sent uuencoded (while
uuencoded text is not as obvious as "clear" text, it is not a form of
encryption and it is easy to "decode" it). You can also combine this with
access control
to limit the user IDs and passwords that can be entered for a
URL. This changes the meaning of
Web Server/400 require entries; any users
listed will be expected to be valid user profiles instead of entries in a
user file.
Disabled Disables webulator access in the current directory.
User was specified above. It is the
AS/400 user that will be signed on. It must have a corresponding entry in the
Webulator/400 user file.
AllowSignonOverrideUser or
UseAuthentication. If set, Webulator/400 will allow
signon screen fields to be overridden by
URL options.
IgnoreSignonOverrideUser or
UseAuthentication. If set, Webulator/400 will not allow
signon screen fields to be overridden by
URL options.
Disabled,
will be inherited.
Signon Method UserNameOnly one entry may exist in a directory section. If more than one entry is found, the last one will be used.