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developerWorks > WebSphere | Tivoli >

Software as a Service: Enforcing role based access control using WebSphere Portal Server & Tivoli Directory Server

Level: Introductory

Mary Taylor (marytaylor@us.ibm.com), Senior IT Architect, IBM

26 Sep 2007


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See how WebSphere® Portal access control features can be exploited for enforcing security in a SaaS application by restricting the set of portal pages and portlets that a particular user can access, based on the role of the user.

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Sample implementation artifact for building SaaS solutions on IBM middleware

A code snippet from a WebSphere Portal Server XML access script. This code sample shows a mapping of the editor role for the SaasBankInterestRatesCustomerPortlet to the LDAP group in the sample banking application: cn=wpsadmins,cn=groups,dc=bank1,dc=com

PortalXML.doc (24KB)

Duration

Less than 10 minutes.

Resources

Learn

Read about Portal Access Control in the developerWorks WebSphere Portal Security zone.
developerWorks article: Securing a Composite Business Service delivered as a Software as a Service: Part 1, Secure multi-tenancy with WebSphere Portal Server
Find resources on the WebSphere Portal zone.
Technical resources for Tivoli software and security products.
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About the author


		Mary Taylor is a senior software engineer. She is working in the Strategic Technology Architecture and Incubation team, and she is currently working on an SOA CBS pilot. Her interests include DB2 and DataStage.