About Identity Management

The UO's Identity and Access Management System includes:

• The management of a common digital identity and credential, the Duck ID, used for accessing campus services.
• A system that manages the provisioning and deprovisioning of access to technology resources.
• The web sign-on systems Shibboleth and CAS, to allow web application login using the Duck ID.
• An Enterprise Directory Service, which provides a specialized database containing standard representations of information about people, groups, locations, services, and other resources. It includes:
  • Data integration with source systems such as Banner.
  • Authentication: the process of verifying whether or not a subject is who or what its identifier says it is. This is commonly done using a username and password.
  • Authorization: the process of determining an entity's eligibility to access an application or function or make use of a resource.