Loading access control policy definitions and other policy-related elements

To load access control policy definitions, run the acpload script. This script loads the following elements: <Action>, <ActionGroup>, <Attribute>, <ResourceCategory>, <ResourceGroup>, <Relation>, <RelationGroup>, <Policy>, <PolicyGroup>.

  1. Ensure that you have loaded the user access group definitions.

  2. Copy your customized access control policy files to the following directory:

    The customized XML files must conform to the accesscontrolpolicies.dtd file in the following directory:

  3. To run the utility:

    AIX|Linux|Solaris:

    You must login as a user which has the following permissions:

    • Read/write/execute authority to the directories, subdirectories, and files of WC_installdir/xml/policies and WC_installdir/logs.

    • Read/execute authority to the WC_installdir/bin directory and its files.

      If the user does not have the required authority, you need to grant this authority using the chmod command.

    I5/OS: You must login with a profile which has the following permissions:

    • Read/write/execute authority to files under WC_installdir/xml/policies, WC_userdir /instances and WC_userdir /instances/ instance/logs.

    • Read/execute authority to the WC_installdir/bin directory and its files.

      For example, define the profile with USRCLS *SECOFR.

  4. From the WC_installdir/bin directory, type the following:

      ./acpload.sh database_name database_user database_user_password policies_xml_file schema_name

    • Windows: acpload.cmd database_name database_user database_user_password policies_xml_file schema_name

    • acpload policies_xml_file

    Where:

    database_name

    (Required) Name of the database in which to load the policy.

    database_user

    (Required) Name of the database user who can connect to the database.

    database_user_password

    (Required) The associated password for the database user.

    policies_xml_file

    (Required) The input policy XML file that specifies what policy data to load into the database.

    schema_name

    (Optional) The name of target database schema. This name is normally the same as database_user.

    • For example:

      AIX|Linux|Solaris| 

      ./acpload.sh mall dbuser dbusrpwd defaultAccessControlPolicies.xml




      acpload.cmd mall dbuser dbusrpwd defaultAccessControlPolicies.xml

  5. Check for errors in the log files. Note that errors might not appear on the command line.

    1. AIX|Linux|Solaris|Windows:

      Check the acpload.log and messages.txt files in the following directory: WC_installdir/logs

    2. I5/OS|Check the acpload.log and messages.txt files in the following directories:

    3. Any error files generated in WC_installdir/xml/policies/xml directory.

  6. Update the registries: Access Control Policies and Access Control Policy Groups.



  1. To load the access groups and access control policies, run the following related utilities in this sequence:

    1. acugload (loads the user access group definitions)

    2. acpload (loads the main access control policy)

    3. acpnlsload (loads the display names and descriptions)

  2. If you create customized XML files, copy them into the WC_installdir/xml/policies/xml directory to have them loaded into the databases.

  3. There is a setting in the loading scripts that specifies the following parameter setting while resolving ID's and loading the data to the database: "-maxerror 100000". This means that if there up to 100000 foreign key violations while loading the data, they will be ignored, instead of aborting. This value can be increased or decreased as needed. For example, if you want to stop after one such error, you would change the value to 1.

  4. I5/OS:

    If you create customized XML files, use the full path to the DTD in your file. The access control policies DTDs are located in WC_installdir/xml/policies/dtd .

  5. When creating a custom policy, do not alter the defaultAccessControlPolicies.xml file. Use this file as a reference to see the structure when creating a custom policy.

 

Related Concepts


Authorization
Understanding access control

 

Related tasks


Loading access control policy data

 

Related Reference


acpload utility
Default access control policies