RSA Authentication Manager Identity Sources

An identity source is a repository that contains user and user group data. Each user and user group in a deployment is associated with an identity source.

Authentication Manager supports the following as identity sources:

  • An LDAP directory:

    Note: The certificate used by the LDAPS protocol must be at least 2048 bits. For example, you must replace the default Oracle Directory Server certificate, which is 1024 bits.

    In Active Directory, you can add a Global Catalog as an identity source, when some or all of the Active Directory servers in the Active Directory forest are used as identity sources. In such a case, you can use the Global Catalog for runtime activities, such as looking up and identifying users and resolving group membership within the Active Directory forest. You cannot use a Global Catalog identity source to perform administrative tasks.

    Note: Authentication Manager supports Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (LDS) servers if the same server does not also have an Active Directory Domain Controller role. If a server has an Active Directory Domain Controller role, select that identity source type when connecting the identity source to Authentication Manager.

    • Microsoft Active Directory 2012

    • Microsoft Active Directory 2012 R2

    • Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 2012 R2

    • Microsoft Active Directory 2016

    • Microsoft Active Directory 2019

    • Sun Java System Directory Server 7.0

    • Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g

      The default Oracle certificate keysize must be at least 2048

    • OpenLDAP 2.4.40

    • The Authentication Manager internal database

Data from an LDAP Directory

Authentication Manager has read-only access to all LDAP directory identity sources. After a directory is integrated with Authentication Manager, you can use the Security Console to do the following:

  • View (but not add or modify) user and user group data that resides in the directory.

  • Perform Authentication Manager administrative tasks. For example, enable or disable the use of on-demand authentication (ODA) and risk-based authentication (RBA), or assign tokens or user alias to individual users who reside in the directory.

You must use the LDAP directory native user interface to modify data in a directory.

Data from the Internal Database

Authentication Manager provides an internal database where you can create users and user groups. For users and user groups in the internal database, administrators can use the Security Console to do the following:

  • Add, modify, and view user and user group data.

  • Enable or disable Authentication Manager functions, such as ODA and RBA, for individual users, including users whose accounts are in an LDAP directory.

The following information is stored only in the internal database:

  • Data that is specific to Authentication Manager, such as policies for administrative roles, and records for authentication agents and SecurID authenticators

  • Data that links Authentication Manager with LDAP directory user and user group records

Related Concepts

Active Directory Global Catalog Identity Sources

Related Tasks

Edit Identity Source Attribute Mappings

Link an Identity Source to the System