Sybase CEP Engine Authentication Plugins

Describes Sybase CEP authentication plugins. Sybase CEP Engine provides a user-level SDK for creating authentication plugins that you can then enable to verify user identities and determine user membership in groups.

The Sybase CEP Engine distribution also includes three built-in sample plugins:

• Plain Text Apache-Format htpasswd Plugin

• LDAP Authentication Plugin

• Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)

The c8-server.conf file includes sections for each of these plugins, enclosed in comment marks. These sections and the plugins they enable are discussed in more detail in the following sections.

Before setting up authentication plugins, make sure that you have set up access restrictions for Sybase CEP Engine. See "Setting Up Access Restrictions" for more information.

• Creating and Configuring Authentication Plugins
  A description of how to configure a plugin in the c8-server.conf file.
• Plain Text Apache-Format htpasswd Plugin
  A description of the Plain Text Apache-Format htpasswd plugin, which accesses Apache-format htpasswd and htgroup files to perform user and group authentication.
• LDAP Authentication Plugin
  A description of how to configure the LDAP Authentication plugin. These steps require you to modify the c8-server.conf file.
• Pluggable Authentication Modules
  A description of how to implement Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) on Unix-like operating systems.