Crowd 1.5 : Concepts
This page last changed on Aug 28, 2008 by smaddox.
Crowd is an application security framework that handles authentication and authorisation for your web-based applications. With Crowd you can quickly integrate multiple web applications into a single security architecture that supports single sign-on (SSO) and centralised identity management. Crowd has the following components:
Designed for ease of use, Crowd can be deployed with your existing infrastructure. Crowd supports:
See the list of supported applications and directories. Architectural OverviewCrowd is a middleware application that integrates web applications into a single security architecture, supporting single sign-on and centralised identity management. Crowd works by dispatching authentication and authorisation calls from configured applications to configured directories. A typical deployment may be similar to the following:
About ApplicationsCrowd integrates and provisions applications. Once defined, an application is mapped to a directory(s), whose users are then granted access to the application. Note that an application can only communicate with Crowd when the application uses a known host address.About DirectoriesCrowd supports an unlimited number of user directories. A directory can be one of the following types:
Once you have defined a directory in Crowd, you can map it to applications. Crowd will then pass authentication and authorisation requests to the directory, for all applications that are mapped to that directory. Modification of directory entities (users, groups and roles) can be done via the Crowd Administration Console or via the application, depending on the application's capabilities. You can even map multiple directories to an application, providing the application with a single view of multiple directories in a specified order. RELATED TOPICS |
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