Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Users and groups
IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express offers you centralized administration of users and user groups, allowing you to better define users and manage user access rights. Users can register and manage their own account information, or an administrator can provision and manage users. Group memberships can be used to give the required permissions to access an object or perform a request.
All read-only attributes for users and groups must be listed in WP PumaService. If read-only attributes are not listed in this file, users and groups cannot be modified. Setting configuration properties describes how to modify Puma service to list the attributes with the appropriate properties below:
- User attributes: user.sync.remove.attributes
- Group attributes: group.sync.remove.attributes
- Adding new users
You must add users so that they can access resources. - Managing users and groups
The Manage Users and Groups portlet allows you to view, create, and delete users and user groups. You can also change group memberships. - Nested groups
Read about how nested groups are supported to enable simple inheritance of access control. - Setting limits on searches for users and groups
Searching for users or groups is a time consuming task. A search may time out or return more results than the system can handle or the user may expect. To prevent this behavior, you can set limits on searches for users or groups. - Deregistering users and groups from WebSphere Portal Express
IBM WebSphere Portal Express stores users and groups that exist in the user registry as entries in the portal database. When using the XML configuration interface or the Manage User and Groups Portlet to delete users and groups, they are deleted from the user registry as well as from the database. Deleting a user or group directly from the configured user registry does not remove the database entry. Also, WebSphere Portal Express does not remove entries from its database when users or groups are muted in the user registry, for example, users with too many wrong password attempts. You can manually remove the users and groups from the database. - Customize common name generation
By default, IBM WebSphere Portal Express generates common names that consists of the user's first name followed by the last name. You can change the order of common names that are generated. - Registration, Edit My Profile and Login
There are Registration and Edit My Profile processes for subscriber management. Registration allows users to register for access and information entered during Registration can be updated in Edit My Profile. - Special characters in user IDs and passwords
This topic describes the special characters that are allowed in user IDs or passwords and rules for using them. - Searching group membership
Changes in the group membership and the resulting permissions do not take effect until after the user logs out. A search for group membership can result in errors. Be sure to log out of IBM WebSphere Portal Express after making any changes to group membership, including adding members to a group or assigning new permissions. When you login again, modifications to group membership and permissions have been updated and display correctly. Note that the new attribute must be defined to Member Services by updating the database before setting a value for that attribute. - Using the member fixer tool with IBM Workplace Web Content Management
Use the member fixer tool to check whether any Member Manager users or groups referenced in IBM Workplace Web Content Management™ items have been renamed or deleted from Member Manager.