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Administering HCL Compass Web
This section discusses how to administer HCL Compass Web.
Configuring strong authentication with smart cards
Smart card authentication is appropriate for deployments where security requirements dictate stronger authentication than using a HCL Compass user name and password.
Configuring HCL Compass Web
Configuring HCL Compass Web includes configuring client certification authentication, mapping users to LDAP groups, configuring container authentication, and configuring LDAP for HCL Compass databases.
Configuring container authentication for HCL Compass Web
Configure container authentication for HCL Compass Web so that when a user navigates to the logon screen, the user name and password are populated from the client certificate.

Configuring container authentication for HCL Compass Web

Configure container authentication for HCL Compass Web so that when a user navigates to the logon screen, the user name and password are populated from the client certificate.

Container authentication bypasses some of the standard HCL Compass logon security steps. You must perform the following steps to configure container authentication for HCL Compass Web. Steps 2 and 3 ensure that the HCL Compass Web interface trusts the identity of the user only when operating in an environment enabled for container authentication. The HCL Compass core bypasses password checking only when called from a HCL Compass Web client that has container security enabled. Standard logon processing cannot be bypassed from either a script or any other HCL Compass client user interface.