External security managers

Use external security managers such as IBM^® Tivoli^® Access Manager for e-business to perform authentication and authorization for IBM WebSphere^® Portal Express. You can use an external security manager for authentication only or for both authentication and authorization. Using an external security manager to perform only authorization is not supported at this time.

Perform the following tasks to configure external security managers:

Configuring Tivoli Access Manager
IBM WebSphere Portal Express supports the use of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business. Existing Tivoli Access Manager users can leverage the commonly used Tivoli Access Manager services to assist them in their deployment.
Configuring eTrust SiteMinder
IBM WebSphere Portal Express supports the use of Computer Associates eTrust SiteMinder for authentication and authorization.
Masking passwords in External Security Manager properties files
WebSphere Application Server has an encoding mechanism to mask the passwords and remove all comments from the production versions of properties files.
Changing the login and logout pages
Managing access control with external security managers
WebSphere Portal Express externalizes roles and uses access control to control role membership. From the perspective of the external security manager, these externalized roles contain only one permission: membership in the role. WebSphere Portal Express always determines the permissions associated with each role.

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