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WebClient Applications
Designing Security : Protecting servers with user IDs and passwords : Prompting the end user for authentication information : Enabling authentication for an application-configuration-file server
 
Enabling authentication for an application-configuration-file server
To enable authentication for an application-configuration-file server, go to the Application Assembler's Configuration File Locator Definition window. In the Authentication Information group box, fill in the End-User Description field and check the Prompt for ID/Password (Unless Cached) box:
Note: WebClient uses this information only if the end user starts an already-installed WebClient application by using a shortcut. For more information on starting an already-installed application with a shortcut, see Deploying an Application
Enabling this option displays the following authentication prompt to the end user: