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Use SSO with LTPA to allow Lotus Connections users to re-use their authentication details for accessing Profiles data and Communities membership.

This task assumes that you have already configured federated repositories and that you are familiar with setting up SSO on WebSphere Application Server.

You can enable SSO whether the features are all on one server or are distributed across different servers.

If you are enabling SSO between LC and a product that is deployed on a pre-6.1 version of WAS, or if the product is using IBM Lotus Domino, first complete the steps described in the Enabling SSO with stand-alone LDAP topic.

Complete the following steps to use SSO LTPA keys in LC.

  1. Check out the LotusConnections-config.xml file.

  2. To enable SSO, set the communities.directory.service.extension.auth attribute to SSO.

  3. Optional: By default, the Profiles feature uses lazy authentication. To force authentication for Profiles, set...

  4. Optional: To disable private membership for the Communities feature, set...

  5. Save and check in the LotusConnections-config.xml file.

  6. Stop and restart WAS.

  7. Log in to the WAS Integrated Solutions Console.

  8. Click Security > Secure Administration, applications and infrastructure.

  9. Under Authentication, expand Web security and select single sign-on (SSO).

  10. Type your domain name in the Domain name field, ensuring that you add a dot (.) before the domain name. For example: .example.com.

    Notes

    • The domain name must be part of the host name.

    • If you are installing the pilot version of LC, enter the host name of the server here, using the same value that you used in the pilot installation wizard.

  11. Select the Interoperability mode and Web inbound security attribute propagation check boxes.

  12. Restart all your installed features and check that you can switch between them without needing to authenticate more than once.

 

Example

Use the following excerpt from a sample LotusConnections-Config.xml file as a guide:

If you are using SSL or TLS, update the href setting with "HTTPS" and the port number.

 

Related tasks

Configure single sign-on
Create a user information file