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May 12, 2010 at 02:14 PM

User Authentication Process from User to SAP Portal via Active Directory?

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Please can you give me information or let me know if there is any documentation on the authentication process when a user logs onto a SAP Portal (7.1), where the SAP Portal calls an Active Directory server to authenticate the user?

The reason I am asking is because I have been told by my server team that the SAP Portal sends the username to the AD server and the AD server responds with the password. i.e. the check is done on the Portal and not on the AD server.

However if I enter an incorrect password, I can see that the AD server registers a bad password attempt. This would suggest that what the server team are telling me is incorrect and that the authentication is actually being performed on the AD server.

Thanks.