AIX stand-alone: Configuring portal to use a user registry

Configure user registry security on IBM® WebSphere® Portal to protect your server from unauthorized users. You can configure a stand-alone LDAP user registry or you can add both LDAP user registries and database user registries or database user registries to the default federated repository. After you configure your user registry, you can add realms for Virtual Portals or a lookaside database to store attributes that cannot be stored in the LDAP user registry.

Prerequisites
Preparing your AIX operating system in a stand-alone environment
Installing WebSphere Portal on AIX
AIX stand-alone: Configuring Portal to use a database
AIX stand-alone: Preparing a remote Web server

Before you begin

Before you configure security, you must use the IBM WebSphere Application Server backupConfig task to create and store a backup of the IBM WebSphere Portal configuration; see backupConfig command for information.
Prerequisites
Preparing your AIX operating system in a stand-alone environment
Installing WebSphere Portal on AIX
AIX stand-alone: Configuring Portal to use a database
AIX stand-alone: Preparing a remote Web server

About this task

Complete the following tasks to configure WebSphere Portal to use a user registry:
  1. AIX stand-alone: Preparing user registries
    Install and set up an LDAP server as a user registry to store user information and authenticate users in your clustered environment.
  2. AIX stand-alone: Choosing your user registry model
    Choose between securing IBM WebSphere Portal with a stand-alone LDAP user registry or by adding both LDAP user registries and database user registries or database user registries to the default federated repository. Choose the federated repository if you plan to enable the transient user feature.
  3. AIX stand-alone: Adapting the attribute configuration
    After installing IBM WebSphere Portal and configuring your LDAP user registries, you will need to adapt the attribute configuration to match the configured LDAP server(s) and your business needs. However, you do not need to perform these steps if you are using either a database user registry or the default federated file-based repository for out-of-box installations.
  4. AIX stand-alone: Configuring Portal to use dynamic groups
    By default, WebSphere Portal is enabled for static groups. However, the Virtual Member Manager (VMM) allows users to be members of either static or dynamic groups. Static groups are those where a persistent binding exists between a group and its members. Dynamic groups are those where a search query is defined to retrieve the members of a group. If you have your LDAP server configured to use dynamic groups, complete the steps in this task for WebSphere Portal to use dynamic group queries when you setup your LDAP server.
  5. AIX stand-alone: Enabling referrals for your LDAP user registry
    Referrals redirect object requests from one LDAP server to another when objects do not exist or cannot be located in a particular directory tree. You should enable referrals if your environment has more than one user registry existing on multiple servers or domains.
  • Parent topic: Setting up a stand-alone production server on AIX
  • Previous topic: AIX stand-alone: Preparing a remote Web server

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