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Types of Content Manager clients and types of SSO authentication

Depending on whether a Content Manager client is a desktop client or a browser client, different types of SSO authentication are supported.

Content Manager has two types of clients:
  • Browser-based clients: Content Manager Explorer and Experience Manager
  • Desktop clients such as Content Porter and Template Builder, or add-ons to third-party desktop applications, such as the Visio Workflow Designer.
SSO supports two types of authentication:
  • Basic SSO authentication, where the user sees a login prompt asking for a username and password
  • Form-based authentication, where the user is redirected to a configured webpage for entering a username and password, after which the user is redirected back to the original webpage they were trying to access.
Client types and SSO authentication types combine as follows:
Basic SSO authenticationForm-based SSO authentication
Browser-based clientsupportedsupported
Desktop clientsupportednot supported