You can configure identity assertion authentication. The purpose of identity assertion is to assert the authenticated identity of the originating client from a Web service to a downstream Web service.
This task is used to configure identity assertion authentication. The purpose of identity assertion is to assert the authenticated identity of the originating client from a Web service to a downstream Web service. Do not attempt to configure identity assertion from a pure client. Identity assertion works only when you configure on the client-side of a Web service acting as a client to a downstream Web service.
In order for the downstream Web service to accept the identity of the originating client (just the user name), you must supply a special trusted BasicAuth credential that the downstream Web service trusts and can authenticate successfully. You must specify the user ID of the special BasicAuth credential in a trusted ID evaluator on the downstream Web service configuration. For more information on trusted ID evaluators, see Trusted ID evaluator .
Complete the following steps to specify identity assertion as the authentication method:
After you specify identity assertion as the authentication method used by the client, you must specify how to collect the authentication information. See Configuring the client for identity assertion: collecting the authentication method for more information.