Re: How to make password required on my Admin console

[rene_...@g1.com]

Correction. I would like to be able to alter the console WITHOUT having to reinstall entirely.

Thanks

[rene_...@g1.com]

I have an existing installatio of Websphere 6.1.0.17 that I opted not to have a userid and password to log into the admin console. How can I add the admin user id and password requirements with having to reinstall the entire application? Is there a way to augment the current profile? Is there a template that would do this or an option on the console itself?

[Juanma Martinez]

rene_...@g1.com wrote:
> Correction. I would like to be able to alter the console WITHOUT having to reinstall entirely.
>
> Thanks

Look in the Infocenter how to enable global security

[stewar...@principal.com]

It's pretty easy to turn on administrative security after you install WebSphere.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/tsec

That should provide you most of the information that you need. In 6.1 it's easy with the security configuration wizard. Just make sure afterwards to update your soap.client.props and your sas.client.props files so you can make soap and rmi calls into the adminstrative processes. (like starting and stopping the server via a windows service uses this).

[rene_...@g1.com]

Thanks for the reply.
I will look at it. But can you repost the URL please? That one does not seem to work for me. I tried to doctor it up but it still did not work. I am just getting a blank page.
Thanks again

[stewar...@principal.com]

sorry about that. Try this one.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/tsec_csec2.html

[Juanma Martinez]

stewar...@principal.com wrote:
> sorry about that. Try this one.
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/tsec_csec2.html

This forum server is known for mangling up URLs a bit, so the one you
get might need some cleansing

[rene_...@g1.com]

I tried several things with the suggested instructions and obviously I am missing something here or there is trully a problem.
I am now getting this error while trying to configure a federated repository, (which btw I believe is the correct type of repository to use for a simple userid and pwd in the system).

*SECJ7305E: Found other virtual member manager repository configurations. Only the built-in virtual member manager file-based repository is supported through the wizard*

I wanted to also note that the in documentation states the following:

+Note: For WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1, administrative security is enabled by default whenever a new profile is created, either during the initial install when you create a new profile or during post-install when you use the profile creation tooling. You can decide not to enable administrative security during profile creation time by instead enabling security post-profile creation using the administrative console.+

I have not been able to create new profiles with the admin security. I have been creating new profiles with the manageprofiles.sh script and it does not provide such facility to add the administrative security during the creation process. Help!!!