Enabling application groups
You can define user groups within the database user registry with members (users or groups) contained in the federated LDAP user registry you configured with application groups. The benefit of application groups is that you can create groups that are only used in IBM® WebSphere® Portal.
Before you begin
About this task
You can use application groups in the following scenarios:
- Read-only LDAP
- If you have a read-only LDAP, you cannot change the group membership of users and groups. If you need to define access rights for certain users that are in different groups, you can create an application group for these users with the required access rights.
- Special group setup for WebSphere Portal
- In this scenario, you need to set up a special group hierarchy that is used only by WebSphere Portal and not by other applications that access your LDAP server. This set up can help you apply special access control rules just for WebSphere Portal because the roles assigned to the application group also apply to all of its members.
Note: Application groups apply only to WebSphere Portal; it does
not apply to external security managers. Also, application groups are not supported when you use the
built-in file repository.
Perform the following steps to enable application groups: