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Google Search Appliance Managing Search for Controlled-Access Content User Manual

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Google Search Appliance: Managing Search for Controlled-Access Content

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Contents

Chapter 1

Overview ................................................................................................................... 5

About this Guide

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Which Sections of this Guide Should I Read?

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Chapter 2

Crawl, Index, and Serve .............................................................................................. 8

Authentication, Authorization, and Controlled-Access Content

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Crawl and Index for Controlled-Access Content

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How a Search Appliance Indexes Controlled-Access Content

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Configuring Crawl for Cookie-Based Access

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Configuring Crawl for HTTP Basic or NTLM HTTP

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Configuring Crawl for the SAML Authentication and Authorization Service

Provider Interface

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Configuring Crawl and Serve for Kerberos

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Configuring Crawl and Serve Over HTTPS

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Secure Content and Public Content

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How a Search Appliance Labels Controlled-Access Content Sources as Public

or Secure

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How a Search Appliance Determines What to Display in Public Search Results 14

Authentication

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Universal Login

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Cookie-Based Authentication

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HTTP-Based Authentication

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Client Certificate-Based Authentication

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Kerberos-Based Authentication

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The SAML Authentication Service Provider Interface (SPI)

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Connectors

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LDAP

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Using Silent Authentication

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Using Perimeter Security

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Authorization

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Flexible Authorization

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Legacy Authorization

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Policy Access Control Lists

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The SAML Authorization Service Provider Interface

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How to Exclude Controlled-Access Content Sources from Search

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Excluding Controlled-Access Content from the Index

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Removing Controlled-Access Content from Search Results

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