Service Provider

tags

Security

Summary #

JAK Summary #

• Applications that use IdP to authenticate and verify the identity of its users.

Detailed #

• Typically, service providers do not authenticate users but instead request authentication decisions from an Identity Provider.

• Service providers rely on identity providers to assert the identity of a user and certain attributes about the user that are managed by the identity provider.

• Service providers might also maintain a local account for the user, along with attributes that are unique to their service.

• Service providers can maintain a local account for the user, which can be referenced by an identifier for the user.

• Some federation protocols use different terminology to refer to the service provider role:

  • Relying party The Information Card protocol specification uses the term Relying Party to describe the service provider role. Select the Service Provider role for your Relying Party when you configure the Information Card federation in the Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager wizard.

  • Consumer The OpenID protocol specification uses the term Consumer to describe the service provider role. Select the Service Provider role for your Consumer when you configure the OpenID in the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager wizard.