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Authentication Mechanisms

Summary by Server Type

This table provides a high-level review of support for different authentication mechanisms. In the table, the following symbols indicate the extent to which each server can be accessed using each feature:

[full] Supported

[half] Supported for only direct connections (not metadata aware connections)

[slice] Intended for only administrators and some service identities

[dot] Used only for certain server-to-server communications

[empty] Not supported

Summary: How Servers Can be Accessed
Mechanism Server Type
Metadata Workspace OLAP Stored Process or Pooled Workspace Client-Pooled Workspace
Host authentication (credential-based)
[full]
[full]
[half]
[empty]
[dot]
Integrated Windows authentication
[full]
[full]
[half]
[empty]
[empty]
Web authentication
[full]
[empty]
[empty]
[empty]
[empty]
Direct LDAP authentication
[full]
[empty]
[half]
[empty]
[empty]
Internal authentication
[slice]
[empty]
[slice]
[slice]
[empty]
SAS token authentication
[dot]
[full]
[full]
[full]
[empty]
Trusted user
[dot]
[empty]
[empty]
[empty]
[empty]
Trusted peer
[dot]
[empty]
[empty]
[empty]
[empty]
1 For the client-pooled workspace server, user access depends on membership in a puddle group.

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