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This chapter introduces the process of achieving Single Sign-on by using CA severs,such as Siteminder, to validate authentication information passed by the the HTTP headers.

Single Sign-on is a method that provides access control for the server. It enables the user to be authenticated only once and gain access to the resource of multiple software systems. In other words, a user agent that wishes to authenticate itself with a server might need to do so only once for the same security realm using Single Sign-on.

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You can configure the security realm for HTTP header-based authentication. The following TestPropsRealm.xml file is a deployment plan used to create a Properties file security realm on the Geronimo server. Applications which use this security realm can achieve Single Sign-on.

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