Configuring Windows Credentials as your External Identity Provider - Intergraph Smart API Manager - 5.0 - Help

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Windows Credentials lets you authenticate with a username and password that match Windows credentials, thus identifying the Windows user. This identity provider is ideal for legacy thick clients that still have a forms-based user interface.

Smart API Manager is preconfigured to work with Windows Credentials. A Smart Client collects the username and password, and then passes that information to Smart API Manager when requesting an access token.

For this to work, the Smart Client must be configured to use the ResourceOwner authorization flow.

  • An authorization flow is selected when the Smart Client is registered. For information on changing the authorization flow, see Change the authorization flow for a Smart Client.

  • An authorization flow is a protocol defining how the various roles, as defined by the OAuth 2.0 specification, interact in order to authorize a call to an API. Different flows require different types and pieces of information. Documenting OAuth 2.0 protocol flow is beyond the scope of this topic, but for more information, see Smart API Developer Documentation.