12.4.4 Configuring an Identity Injection Policy for Basic Authentication

A common way to protect web resources is to configure the web server to require basic authentication for accessing a resource. The web is configured to check for the user’s name and password in the HTTP authentication header. If you have web resources with this type of configuration, you can enable single sign-on to these resources by creating a policy that injects the username and password into the HTTP authentication header.

This section explains how to set up the /sales directory to require basic authentication, and then how to create the Identity Injection policy.

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