ace00002.gif Linking to the WebID Authentication Instructions


The netscape_home_directory/docs/aceagent/tokenhelp directory contains the SecurID user authentication instructions in HTML format. You can add a link to these instructions from your WebID authentication form templates to provide tokenholders with online help during authentication.

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Editing the template files requires that you have a thorough understanding of the HTML markup language. When adding image files to the authentication prompt (such as a “Help” button), be sure that the files are not loaded from a SecurID-protected directory. If these files are protected, the browser will not recognize them and will display them as “broken image” icons.

To create a hyperlink to the HTML authentication instructions:

  1. Copy the contents of the /netscape_home_directory/docs/aceagent/tokenhelp directory (tokenhelp/*) to an unprotected directory on your Web server. If you copy the files to a SecurID-protected directory, users will be prompted for a PASSCODE when they try to link to the help files.
     
  2. Using a text editor such as vi, open any of the WebID authentication form templates.
     
  3. Decide where you want the link to appear oin the page, then type in the appropriate HREF= tag to make a hyperlink to /yourdir/index.html, where yourdir is the name of the directory that you copied the tokenhelp/* files into in step 1.
     
  4. Save and close the authentication template.
     
  5. Repeat these steps for each of the authentication templates.