Originally posted by Alana Sparx:
Thanks foe the reply, Ryan.
Global Security is currently turned off - what I'm trying to do is switch it on, but the original username/passwords have been lost.
So, I need to
a) figure out which user registry is being used - if it on the localOS, can i easily get a look at this (I'm expecting a guffaw followed by a strong !NO!' to this, but hey, I'm desperate). If its LDAP, i suppose I'm in a bit of a pickle?
b) one I have the log in details I can 'log-in' to the appropriate registry, and then have the permissions to tamper with the as yet non-existent security setting?
Any ideas where the localOS registry might be? Or are we talking lengths of string here?
Thanks again
I'm having a hard time understanding everything you saying, but it seems to me you either:
a) Have an external LDAP user registry somewhere and forgot or don't know any of the credentials in it. If so I would ask your admin or the previous person to setup WAS security.
b) WAS security has not been setup before and you have no user registry and are trying to figure out what to do.
LocalOS simply uses your Operating System user registry. I personally have only used a Sun ONE LDAP registry. So if the machine you have WAS installed on has a user called Joe with a password of "Password"
you should be able to use that username/password, and WAS will check credentials against the OS registry.
As for LDAP there are a slew of LDAP servers WAS supports out of the box. I personally have only used Sun ONE and don't remember setting it up. However I made a user called "websphere" and used that as my login user.
You can also setup custom registries but I have no clue how to do that.
Once again, if you actually already have a user registry created somewhere, ans just forgot the credentials then you need to ask you admin or whoever created it. If you don't have a registry at all then you need to create one.
IBM info-ceter documentation for Local OS:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v5r1//topic/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/csec_localos.html IBM info-center documentation for LDAP:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v5r1//topic/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/csec_ldap.html