Introduction

The PicketLink Identity Provider Authenticator is a component responsible for the authentication of users and for issue and validate SAML assertions.

Basically, there two different different authenticator implementations type:

• Identity Provider Authenticators

• Service Provider Authenticators

Tomcat Authenticators for use in Apache Tomcat and JBoss Application Server

PicketLink includes a number of Authenticators for providing SAML support on Apache Tomcat and JBoss Application Server.

Useful Information

• Tomcat Character Encoding (UTF-8 etc)