Steps for selecting a custom user registry

Before you begin

Before you begin this task, implement and build the UserRegistry interface. For more information on developing custom user registries refer to Selecting a user registry.

Perform the following steps to select a custom user registry.

Steps for this task

  1. Click Security > User Registry > Custom in the Navigation tree on the left.
  2. On the Custom user registry panel in the General Properties section of the Configuration tab, enter the Server user ID and password.
    This ID is the security server ID, which is only used for WebSphere Application Server security and is not associated with the system process that runs the server. The server calls the Local OS registry to authenticate and obtain privilege information about users by calling the native APIs in that particular registry.
  3. In the Custom User Registry box, enter the dot-separated class name that implements the com.ibm.websphere.security.UserRegistry interface.
    Put the custom registry class name in the class path. A suggested location is the %install_root%/classes directory. Although the custom registry implements the com.ibm.websphere.security.UserRegistry interface, for backward compatibility, a user registry can alternately implement the com.ibm.websphere.security.CustomRegistry interface. The default is com.ibm.websphere.security.FileRegistrySample.
  4. A check in the Ignore Case check box enables a case insensitive authorization check.
    The default is enabled.
  5. Use the Custom Properties link to add any additional properties required to initialize the custom registry.
    The following property is pre-defined by the product; set this property only when required: WAS_UseDisplayName. When set to true, the methods getCallerPrincipal(), getUserPrincipal(), getRemoteUser() return the display name. By default, the securityName of the user is returned. This is primarily introduced to support backward compatibility with the Version 4.0 custom registry.
  6. Click OK.

Related concepts
Selecting a user registry



Searchable topic ID:   tsecselectucustreg
Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 9:56:50 PM CDT    WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, Version 5.0.2
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