Own Authentication

Own authentication maintains user information entirely within Workbench. You can create users and passwords, and assign security and licensing levels within Workbench, and it functions independently of any other security on the system. You do not need to create operating system user accounts on the server itself because user accounts are maintained entirely within the DiveLine through Workbench. When creating users in Workbench for use with Own authentication, a password is required; blank passwords are not allowed. All user passwords are hashed within the application using the scrypt algorithm.

Note that most enterprise implementations of Diver Platform do not use Own Authentication because of the need to maintain separate passwords. Using LDAP, System, or Web Server authentication type supports working with an existing authentication system, such as Active Directory.