BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Active trust relationship

In a networked environment, a trust relationship between two domains is generally a connection that allows one domain accurately to recognize users who have been authenticated by the other domain. While maintaining security, the trust relationship allows users to access resources in multiple domains without repeatedly having to provide their credentials.

Within the BusinessObjects Enterprise environment, the active trust relationship works similarly to provide each user with seamless access to resources across the system. Once the user has been authenticated and granted an active session, all other BusinessObjects Enterprise components can process the user's requests and actions without prompting for credentials. As such, the active trust relationship provides the basis for BusinessObjects Enterprise's distributed security.

Tip:    When combined with single sign-on functionality, the active trust relationship allows users to access their BusinessObjects Enterprise resources without ever having to explicitly provide credentials to BusinessObjects Enterprise.

When single sign-on functionality is combined third party ticket mechanisms, such as Kerberos or SiteMinder, the active trust relationship allows users to access BusinessObjects Enterprise and other network resources without ever having to explicitly provide credentials to the system.

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