To allow users to authenticate with user names in different formats, OneSpan Authentication Server identifies user accounts via the user ID and domain.
Table: User name resolution in OneSpan Authentication Server provides a comparison overview of the user name resolution methods. For a description of each user name resolution method and user account identification, see :
Table: User name resolution in OneSpan Authentication Server | Feature | User Name Resolution Type |
|---|
| | Windows | Active
Directory | Simple |
|---|
| User can authenticate with UPN and SAM account name, even if different. | âś“ | âś“ | |
| User can authenticate with UPN that includes alternative UPN domain suffixes. | âś“ | âś“ | âś“ |
| Supported where OneSpan Authentication Server is installed on a Windows machine which is a member server of the Windows domain. | âś“ | âś“ | âś“ |
| Supported where the machine on which OneSpan Authentication Server is installed is either not a member server of the Windows domain or running a Linux operating system. | | âś“ | âś“ |
| Support for Active Directory users. | âś“ | âś“ | âś“ |
| Support for Active Directory or Global Catalog as back-end server. | âś“ | âś“ | âś“ |
| Resolves user name to SAM account name and FQDN. | âś“ | âś“ | |
| Requires additional configuration of back-end directory information | | âś“ | âś“ |
Figure: Name resolution
Figure: Name resolution with Active Directory back-end server