| Application integration and construction of Unified Data Access Platform in organizations and companies becomes more and more important today, and Unified Authentication is the base and key for it. To Meet the actual needs of application integration, provides one solution of Unified Authentication based on Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Single Sign-on (SSO) mechanisms, and also put forward a integrated model of Unified Authentication System. This system makes use of LDAP to realize the centralized management of user's information and application systems; Utilizes Simple Object Access Protocol(SOAP) to encapsulate data on Web Services, realizes application system long-distance transfer and data exchange between different structure platform; finally, makes use of SSO mechanism to realize users' uniform authentication and authorization. The system is extensible, loose coupling and secure.Also puts forward four stages of Unified Authentication implementation and the main works in each stage, to meet the different needs of application integration projects. |