You can configure authentication
against an ObjectServer, an external repository, such as an LDAP directory
or the default Tivoli Integrated Portal file-based repository. Both the ObjectServer and the file-based
repository can be configured during the installation. If you selected
one of these options, no further configuration is needed. For an LDAP
directory, you specify the file-based repository during installation
and then perform further configuration to define the LDAP directory.
The choice that you made during the installation can be reversed.
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The options for configuring user authentication are as
follows:
- If you selected the ObjectServer as the user repository during
installation and want to use the ObjectServer for authentication,
you do not need to configure the Web GUI.
- If you did not select the ObjectServer during installation but
now want to use it for authentication, you can add it to the federated
repository by configuring the Virtual Member Manager (VMM) plug-in.
- You can configure the ObjectServer to authenticate against an
external repository, such as an LDAP directory. For more information,
see the Related tasks section.
- If you want to authenticate against an LDAP directory, the LDAP
cannot coexist with the ObjectServer in the federated repository if
you want the LDAP users to have write-permissions against the ObjectServer.
If an ObjectServer is defined as a user repository, remove it before
you add the LDAP directory.