Database Service

A service is a Lawson component that facilitates single sign-on. Depending on your needs and how you choose to configure your system, you or your Lawson installer might need to create a service for your Lawson application database. This would be the case if you want to make use of some specialized authentication options that are available.

However, many customers might choose to have authentication options contained in their database driver configuration file and to secure that file through operating system file permissions. This is how database authentication was configured in prior release of Lawson and might still be satisfactory for your installation.

If you want passwords to be encrypted and to make use of Lawson support for the specialized authentication options that might be available through your RDBMS, create a database service and user identities for the service. Read the sections that follow for descriptions of the available database authentication options.