The Pega Platform offers the following authentication types:

• PRBasic

  Based on passwords in the Operator ID data instances and the login form. This is defined by the HTML @baseclass.Web-Login rule, which your application can override.

• PRSecuredBasic

  Similar to PRBasic,but passes credentials by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with Basic HTTP authentication. The login form is defined by the HTML @baseclass.Web-Login-SecuredBasic rule, which your application can override.

• PRCustom

  Supports access to an external LDAP directory or a custom authentication scheme.

• PRExtAssign

  Supports external assignments (Directed Web Access).

• J2EEContext

  Specifies that the application server in which the Pega Platform is deployed uses JAAS to authenticate users.