Single Sign On using Windows Authentication

RichardWatson — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:17:30 GMT

I wish to deploy a Silverlight application using a single sign on approach to authentication, i.e. the users credentials are their Windows domain credentials. ArcGIS Server services are secured using Windows credentials as well.

ArcGIS Server service security is a token based approach which seems to indicate that single sign on is not possible. How can I generate a token unless I ask the user for their password (which is the very thing I wish to avoid)?

Re: Single Sign On using Windows Authentication

JenniferNery — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:48:04 GMT

I'm not sure whether you found answers already.

If not, here's a link to configuring token service. It seems you can leverage existing Windows user accounts.
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/help/arcgis_server_dotnet_help/index.html#//0093000000q5000000.htm.

Also, here's an example of retrieving token from a given user credentials: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/silverlightwpf/archive/2010/02/15/How-to-use-secure-ArcGIS-Server-services.aspx.

If you are using WPF API v2.1, layers have Credentials property. You should be able to re-use the same Credentials. If you are using Silverlight, your web browser handles user authentication.

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