Exporting Lightweight Third Party Authentication keys
To support single sign-on (SSO) in WebSphere® Application Server across multiple WebSphere Application Server domains or cells, you must share the Lightweight Third Party Authentication (LTPA) keys and the password among the domains.
Before you begin
About this task
Complete the following steps in the administrative console to export key files for LTPA so that they can be shared across domains:
Procedure
- Type http://server_name:port_number/ibm/console in a web browser to access the administrative console.
- Click .
- Click LTPA.
- In the Password and Confirm password fields, enter the password that is used to encrypt the LTPA keys. Remember the password so that you can use it later when the keys are imported into the other cell.
- In the Fully qualified key file name field, specify the fully qualified path to the location where you want the exported LTPA keys to reside. You must have write permission to this file.
- Click Export keys to export the keys to the location that you specified in the Fully qualified key file name field.
- Specify the Internal server ID that is used for interprocess communication between servers. The server ID is protected with an LTPA token when sent remotely. You can edit the internal server ID to make it identical to server IDs across multiple application server administrative domains (cells). By default this ID is the cell name.
- Click OK and Save.
Results
LTPA keys that are exported to a file should be readable in an ASCII editor like Notepad.