This documentation supports the 22.1 version of BMC Helix Single Sign-On, which is available only to BMC Helix customers (SaaS). To view an earlier version, select the version from the Product version menu.

Configuring Local authentication

You can configure BMC Helix Single Sign-On server for local authentication. 

Local authentication is a simple light-weight user store which should not be used as a corporate-wide authentication provider. It is not designed as a high performance authentication provider to support group policies, password expiration, and so on. It allows creating realm specific user stores which can be used for different purposes.

You might need to configure Local authentication in one of the following use cases:

  • For applications that require several user accounts
  • For cases when corporate identity providers are not available
  • For testing purposes

You should consider other authentication types when you design corporate-wide authentication for a high workload.

Related topics

Managing permissions

Installing the repository

Before you begin

Add and configure a realm as it is described in Adding-and-configuring-realms.

To configure BMC Helix SSO for Local authentication

  1. In the left navigation panel of the Add Realm or Edit Realm page, click Authentication.
  2. In the Authentication Type field, click Local.

  3. To add another authentication type, click Enable Chaining Mode.  

    Best practice
    Because Local authentication is a simple light-weight user store, we recommend adding another authentication type to handle high workloads.

  4. (Optional) In the ALLOW-FROM DOMAIN(s) field, specify the URLs of the resources supported by BMC Helix SSO that you want to launch in iframes.


Where to from here

When you have configured a realm with Local authentication type, you can add users and groups to this realms. For information about how to do this, see Managing-local-users-and-passwords.