Disabling and enabling Portal Access Control for a WSRP Producer portal

If you use authentication by Web Services Security (WSS) or Secure Socket Layer (SSL) client certificate to provide security for your WSRP services, you also configure Portal Access Control for the Producer.

Before you begin

By default Portal Access Control is enabled for the Producer portal. If you want to disable Portal Access Control when using WSRP with WebSphere Portal, deactivate the WSRP security by setting the portal configuration parameter wsrp.security.enabled in the portal WP Configuration Service to false. You do this in the WebSphere® Integrated Solutions Console. With this setting all portlets that your Producer portal provides can be accessed through the WSRP protocol without any authentication.

To enable Portal Access Control for the Producer portal again, set the portal configuration parameter wsrp.security.enabled in the portal WP Configuration Service to true.

To enable Portal Access Control for WSRP on a Producer portal, proceed by the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Activate the WSRP security by setting the property wsrp.security.enabled to true in the portal WP Configuration Service in the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console.
  2. Assign access rights based on the authentication information:
    • If you use Web Services Security, assign access rights to the actual Consumer portal users. Get the user information from the Consumer.
    • If you use SSL client certificate authentication, assign access rights to the shared user ID as specified in the client certificate.

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