How do authentication and SSO work in the SAP NW Portal?
The SAP Netweaver Portal offers the same possibilities for user authentication as SAP Netweaver AS Java. In Addition Account Aggregation ist supported. With this procedure, a portal user (or a user group) is associated with the user name and password for an application. This allows SSO even for applications that cannot accept SAP Logon Tickets. The administrator, or the user can perform the required mapping using a graphical interface. The portal stores the data in the portal database. For security reasons, all password information is encrypted using a triple DES algorithm. For more information about authentication and SSO in the SAP Enterprise Portal, see Solution in Detail: Security in the mySAP Enterprise Portal.