📄️ Authentication and USoft
See also: Authentication in services
📄️ Front-end users and RDBMS users
In USoft web solutions, in Production, authentication of end users is typically performed by USoft. On behalf of end users, under the hood, USoft accesses the RDBMS using an RDBMS username/password combination. This has 2 distinct purposes:
📄️ User account mapping
Account mapping allows authentication of a USoft account using the credentials of another account. For example, validation of a USoft application user named User1 using the password of an operating system user named User2. This has the advantage of reducing the number of passwords a user has to know. Typically, a set of USoft application accounts that serve different application roles might be authenticated by the password of one single account, optionally the password of the user's operating system account.