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Configure J2C authentication for search

When you install IBM Lotus Connections 2.5, the installation wizard automatically configures authentication and authorization for each feature. Crawling content for indexing occurs over an internal REST API interface, and the credentials used are retrieved from the connectionsAdmin J2C authentication alias that is configured during installation. The user ID from the credentials is also added to the search-admin J2EE role for each feature. To further secure the Lotus Connections environment, you can override this authentication alias on a feature-by-feature basis.


Search functionality depends on the ability of Lotus Connections to index the data that is stored by each feature. The JAAS/J2C alias that is configured at installation time allows automatic authentication for the user account that you assigned to the alias. This user account is also mapped to the search administrator search-admin role for the feature that you are configuring.

To override the connectionsAdmin J2C authentication alias for a specific Lotus Connections feature, you need to define a J2C authentication alias for that feature using the IBM WebSphere Application Server Integrated Solutions Console. For information about how to define a search J2C authentication alias for a feature, see Creating additional system-level administrative users.


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