Understanding Native Authentication

Native authentication refers to an internal SPD Server user-authentication process that accesses the SPD Server password database. This form of authentication is configured by using the psmgr utility.

By default, whenever SPD Server needs to authenticate a user's identity, it accesses the password database. This database contains relevant information about SPD Server users, such as the following:

In the native authentication configuration, SPD Server validates the user by passing the user name from the SASSPDS LIBNAME statement to the password database. This database contains all information pertaining to the user, including permissions and account management information. After validation, SPD Server allows access to the tables, groups, and rights that are appropriate for each user.

To use native SPD Server authentication only, do not include any authentication configuration options in the spdsserv.parm parameter file.