Attribute

AuthenticationMethod (am)

Purpose

Determines which authentication method the driver uses during the course of a session.

Valid Values

0 | 25

Behavior

If set to 0 (Basic), the driver uses a hashed value, based on the concatenation of the user name and password, for authentication.

(S/4HANA only) If set to 25 (HTTPHeader), the driver passes security tokens via HTTP headers for authentication. You must also configure Security Token option and the Authentication Header option.

Default Value

0 (Basic)