Custom User Registry

Custom user registry

A custom user registry is a customer-implemented user registry. A custom-implemented user registry can support virtually any type or form of an accounts repository from a relational database, flat file, and so on. The custom user registry provides considerable flexibility in adapting WebSphere Portal and security to various environments where some form of a user registry, other than LDAP or Member Manager database, already exists in the operational environment.

Configure the custom user registry.

To view this administrative console page, complete the following steps:

1. Click Security > Global security.
2. Under User registries, click Custom.

After the properties are set in this panel, click Apply. Under Additional Properties, click Custom properties to include additional properties that the custom user registry requires. The following property is predefined by the product; set this property when required only:

WAS_UseDisplayName

When this property is set to true, the getCallerPrincipal, getUserPrincipal, and getRemoteUser methods return the display name. By default, the securityName of the user is returned. This property is introduced to support backward compatibility with the Version 4 custom user registry.

When security is enabled and any of these custom user registry settings change, go to the Secure administration, applications, and infrastructure panel and click Apply to validate the changes.

Configuration tab

Server user ID

Specifies the user ID under which the server runs, for security purposes.

This server ID represents a valid user in the custom user registry.

Data type:

String

Server user password

Specifies the password that corresponds to the security server ID.

Data type:

String

Custom registry class name

Specifies a dot-separated class name that implements the com.ibm.websphere.security.UserRegistry interface.

Put the custom registry class name in the class path. A suggested location is the %install_root%/lib/ext directory. Although the custom registry implements the com.ibm.websphere.security.UserRegistry interface, for backward compatibility, a user registry can alternatively implement the com.ibm.websphere.security.CustomRegistry interface.

Data type:	String
Default:	com.ibm.websphere.security.FileRegistrySample

Ignore case for authorization

Indicates that a case insensitive authorization check is performed when you use the default authorization.

Default:	Disabled
Range:	Enabled or Disabled