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Authentication Concepts

The first thing that a client program must do is log in to Agent using a valid user name and password. Agent uses this information to verify that the user exists in the user database (called authentication database) and that the supplied password is valid. If the user is in fact who he or she claims to be, the user security settings are retrieved from the database and the values stored in it are used to determine the user access rights. Agent uses the following authentication databases:

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