Privileged Identities

A privileged identity is a set of credentials for authentication to a Lawson service, where that service is not directly accessed by the user. For example, you can set up your database as a service. If you do so, you would not want the user to be asked for authentication credentials every time the database was accessed on their behalf. Therefore, you set up identities to allow access to the database. If you want all users to access the database service through a single identity, you set up a privileged identity. If you want to track which users are accessing the database, you set up identities for the database service for your individual users. You indicate during the setup of the service whether you are using privileged identities or regular identities for access to the service.

When you create a privileged identity, you are creating a "key." A key provides a way to allow more than one privileged identity to apply to a service, depending on a condition. For example, you could have two privileged identities for a database service, one with a key of BATCH and the other with a key of ONLINE. Then, if a batch program accessed the database, the identity with the BATCH key would be used and if an online program accessed the database, the identity with the ONLINE key would be used.