Linking to External Application

I would like to link to an external application like yahoo.com and be able to sign in to the session automatically once logged into Portal.
1. Is the username/password provided to the external application encrypted?
2. Is it possible to modify the encryption for purposes of decrypting in the external application?
3. Does portal create cookie?
4. Is the username/password passed in the url? (I can test this out)
5. Let's say I bookmark the link to yahoo.com. Once I log out of portal, how can i log out of yahoo as well? I don't want the users to be able to open a new window and open a session of yahoo when I'm already logged out of portal.

Hi Guillermo,
Well, it does take some jugglery to achieve it.....
1. Self - Service console :-
The information used by the Self - Service console is present in Oracle Internet Directory ( OID ). The Self - Service console is a part of Oracle Delegated Administrative Services. The Users are present as LDAP Entries in OID under the node cn=Users,dc=<your_realm>. You an look this up from Oracle Directory Manager ( ODM ).
OID ultimately stores all this information in the ODS Schema. However, accessing for information OID is the best & most convinient way of getting the information.
2. SSO External Applications
As I mentioned earlier, the ORASSO Schema stroes the user information in the table wwsso_appuserinfo$. If you need to update the password, you can directly update this table by using orasso.wwsso_utl.encrypt_ps_password(app_pwd)
Now, to synchronize these two would require some jugglery....
I am trying something now ( very crude, but I am hoping that it might lead me to some other ideas ) to see how best we can integrate these two.....
Has anyone done something similar before ? Can anyone suggest an an alternative ?
Regards,
Sandeep

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