Implicit Login

Question

Hi All,
We are using WLP 8.1 SP2. This is the scenario:
1. The application deployed uses WLP personalization features.
2. The user authentication happens through some pre defined mechanism against
LDAP server and it comes to WLP environment.
3. Since we are heavily using portal personalization feature,once again we have
to login to WLP (explicitly OR implicitly) to show the personalized content to
user.
Hence , we are creating a users (to use personalization feature) with the user
name that is already avaiable in some other LDAP server. For creating user name,
we are populating with astandard password for all users (including for administrators).
This user name and standard password will be used to implicitly login to the system.
My question is :
1. How can we avoid the user creation process ??
2. if we cannot avaiod, how can we maintain different password for each used and
still implicitly login??
3. Is there any implicit login mechanism avialable where in we can just pass the
user name and not the password??
Can somebody answer these questions??
Many thanks in advance,
Prashanth Bhat.

Answer 1

You can force the implicit code flow to prompt the user to sign in by including _auth_=force in the approval request query string. To follow the example shown in the developer guide [1]
change:
https://server:port/ords/resteasy/oauth2/auth?response_type=token&client_id=CLIENT_IDENTIFIER&state=STATE
to:
https://server:port/ords/resteasy/oauth2/auth?response_type=token&client_id=CLIENT_IDENTIFIER&state=STATE&_auth_=force
[1]: REST Data Services Developers Guide