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Change references to administrative credentials

Update the aliases that reference the administrative user IDs and passwords used to handle server-to-server communication.

This is an optional procedure.

1. To update the aliases that manage server-to-server communication, edit the associated J2C authentication data for the alias. In the WebSphere Application Server administration console, select Security > Secure Administration, applications and infrastructure.

2. In the Authentication area, expand Java Authentication and Authorization Service, and click J2C authentication data.

3. Click the connectionsAdmin alias to edit it. You defined the current user ID and password to use for the connectionsAdmin alias during the installation. The user id and password must be one of the following values:

   • A valid user in the organization's LDAP service. Organizational security requirements may require you to change this password periodically, in which case the stored credentials will need to be updated to reflect the new password.

   • A user defined in the WebSphere Identity Manager.

4. Update the values that have changed.

5. Apply and save the changes.

6. Restart the servers hosting Lotus Connections.

7. If you changed the name of the administrative user, update the mapping for the following J2EE roles:

   Application J2EE roles and aliases

   Application J2EE role	Alias	Description
   dsx-admin	connectionsAdmin	Accesses user information from the Profiles or Communities databases using the corresponding service extensions.
   search-admin	connectionsAdmin	Indexes the features to support advanced searches across the product.
   widget-admin	connectionsAdmin	Accesses other features from the Communities feature to support the widgets that are available within Communities.

   See Switching to unique administrator IDs for system level communication for more details.

8. Perform some additional steps to update the messaging bus configuration, which also relies on the connectionsAdmin alias. See Updating the messaging bus configuration when the connectionsAdmin user ID changes for more details.

• Switching to unique administrator IDs for system level communication
  When you install IBM Lotus Connections, you provide a user name and password for a system user account that is created by the installer to handle feature-to-feature communication. The installer also creates a J2C authentication alias, named connectionsAdmin. The alias is filled with the specified user and maps that user to a set of application roles. To map these roles to different system user accounts, create additional J2C authentication aliases and remap the roles.

Manage stored credentials

 

Related tasks

Configure J2C authentication for search

Switching to unique administrator IDs for system level communication

Updating the messaging bus configuration when the connectionsAdmin user ID changes

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