External Authentication Against FND_USER Table

About a month ago Paul Encarnation posted a question concerning external authentication. One to the methods being used was against the FND_USER table in Oracle Apps. I can see looking up the user account in FND_USER but what about the password? So if you are authenticating against the FND_USER table, please share how you are dealing with the password.
Thanks.

Hi,
I have found the fnd_web_sec returns a boolean for a valid username / password combination but I'm still not sue how I can integrate this.
Sorry for being thick but this is what I'm trying to do.
I have an application built in htmldb that I want to be accessable from the e-business suite applications main menu. I've set this up and a user can select it how ever I have no authentication so even though its not assigned to you you can still goto the app by just entering the url. So when a user goes to that htmldb app I want to check that they have that resp assigned to them, this can be done with the following
select 1 from apps.fnd_user_resp_groups ur, apps.fnd_user u
where u.user_name = :APP_USER and u.user_id = ur.user_id
and ur.responsibility_id = XXXX
The two problems I have are:-
If a user goings straight to the htmldb url I need to get them to log in and use the e-business suite login (we dont have SSO)
Or if they are already in e-business suite and go to the htmldb app via the main menu page I need to pass that authentication across.
I hope this makes sense.

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1,
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Hopes this helps.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You will need to create a Custom Realm which delegates to both your RDBMS
and LDAP perhaps using the Weblogic supplied RDBMS and LDAP realms
"Jonathan Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3accf1a3$[email protected]..
Hi,
We are designing a webapp that will be accessible to both internal and
external users. For internal users, we would like to authenticate viaLDAP;
for external users we would like to use RDBMS. In WL5.1, this looked tobe
possible with the DelegatingRealm, however this has been removed in WL6.0.
>
Two questions:
1) Why was it removed?
2) How can we get this functionality in WL6.0?
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-jt
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Here is the deal. I have two openldap servers, used for user authentication (master and slave). I have all the clients to be able to authenticate users against the master openldap server, and that is working fine. I want to make them to be able to authenticate against the slave server, if the master is down for any reasons. Is there a way to configure the clients, and is that the way to manage this, or I have to use another software as heartbeat or something like heartbeat.
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