Configure WebSEAL

Configure WebSEAL to use the password of the IBM Security Access Manager user that is created in the first task of this procedure.

This task configures WebSEAL to use form-based authentication. Form-based authentication ends the ISAM session when the user logs out. For more information, see IBM Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On documentation

  1. On the WebSEAL server, locate the webseald-default.conf file. This file is in the WebSEAL installation directory.

  2. Find the entry basicauth-dummy-passwd.

  3. Replace dummypasswd with the password you specified for the user that is created in the first task of the procedure.

  4. Configure WebSEAL to use form-base authentication. Ensure that these values are set in the WebSEAL configuration file.

    • ba-auth=none
    • forms-auth=https

  5. Save your changes.

  6. Restart the WebSEAL server.

Log on to ISIM Server with any defined IBM Security Access Manager user ID.

  1. You are logging in through the WebSEAL junction URI and not directly in to ISIM Server.

  2. If we use basic authentication, we must close the browser when you log off to end the current session.

Parent topic: Configure ISIM for SSO with application server trust association interceptors and Access Manager WebSEAL