Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Keeping your environment secure
This section provides an overview of topics related to keeping your environment secure:
- Deploying portlets in a secure environment
IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express provides two user authentication modes that the Portlet Deployment Manager can use to authenticate with the IBM WebSphere Application Server administrative services when security is enabled. - Deleting passwords from configuration scripts
This topic provides information on removing passwords from configuration scripts after WebSphere Portal Express has been installed and configured. - Using Java 2 security with WebSphere Portal Express
Java 2 (J2SE) security provides a policy-based, fine-grain access control mechanism that increases overall system integrity by checking for permissions before allowing access to certain protected system resources. J2SE security allows you to set up individual policy files that control the privileges assigned to individual code sources. - Changing passwords
IBM WebSphere Portal Express and IBM WebSphere Application Server use some user accounts from the registry (for example, the LDAP server) for various purposes. This information includes the "Security Server ID" for the WebSphere Application Server JVM, access ID for authenticated access to databases and LDAP servers, and WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Express administrative ID's. Often this means that the account passwords are stored in the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Express bootstraps configuration files, which allows the authentication process to work. - Caching considerations
This topic provides information to consider when setting your cache. - Using WebSphere Application Server global security
You might need to manually disable and enable WebSphere Application Server global security depending on the security scenario you choose.