AUTHENTICATIONTYPE

This table lists the methods available for authenticating a user (ItronIdentity) when they log in. An ItronIdentity is assigned a specific authentication method when their account is set up, either Windows (Active Directory/LDAP) or Itron (strong password) Authentication. There are two special cases: Certificates and Portlets. Certificate authentication can be used in a web application deployment. Certificate authentication supersedes the configured authentication method, allowing the user to fall back on the standard authentication method if a certificate is not available. With remote portlet security, the portal handles authentication in a secure network environment and the ItronIdentity is not stored, in which case this table is not used.

Table 627 

Column name	Column data type	Character length	Description
AuthenticationTypeKey	uniqueidentifier		A unique primary key for the entity, an internal value
Description	nvarchar	100	A text description for this entity.
DataSource	tinyint		0 = User data. Data created by IEE users. User data is not modified during an upgrade 1 = Static data. Data installed with IEE that cannot be overwritten. This data is crucial to the correct operation of IEE. Update, insert, or delete static data during an upgrade 2 = Default data. Data installed with IEE that can be overwritten. Default data is not updated or deleted during an upgrade. However, you can add new default data during an upgrade

The AUTHENTICATIONTYPE table references the following tables:

None

and is referenced by:

(ItronIdentity) -> (ItronIdentity)