Custom user registry settings

Configure the custom user registry. To view this administrative console page, complete the following steps:

1. Click Security > Global security.

2. Under User registries, click Custom.

WAS_UseDisplayName

When this property is set to true, the getCallerPrincipal, getUserPrincipal, and getRemoteUser methods return the display name. By default, the securityName of the user is returned. This property is introduced to support backward compatibility with the Version 4 custom user registry.

When security is enabled and any of these custom user registry settings change, go to the Secure administration, applications, and infrastructure panel and click Apply to validate the changes.

Configuration tab

Server user ID

The user ID under which the server runs, for security purposes.

This server ID represents a valid user in the custom user registry.

Data type:

String

Server user password

The password that corresponds to the security server ID.

Data type:

String

Custom registry class name

Specifies a 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%/lib/ext directory. Although the custom registry implements the com.ibm.websphere.security.UserRegistry interface, for backward compatibility, a user registry can alternatively implement the com.ibm.websphere.security.CustomRegistry interface.

Data type:	String
Default:	com.ibm.websphere.security.FileRegistrySample

Ignore case for authorization

Indicates that a case insensitive authorization check is performed when you use the default authorization.

Default:	Disabled
Range:	Enabled or Disabled

Related tasks

Related reference

getRemoteUser and getAuthType methods