Creating a Login Module

Question

Hi all,
I created my own login module (like the existing Membership module) which
extends the Login class. It works just fine, and can create user profiles
and allow people to log in. When I log into the admin console and try to
bring up the user profile to edit the attributes for this module [Manage
Domains->(domain)->(role)->Users->(user)->Authentication(authentication
module)] it displays an error stating 'This profile contains no data which
can be administered.' I know the profile exists (the user can log in, I can
access the attributes in Servlets and JSPs, and doing a 'ipsadmin get user
(user)' produces the profile). In the login module XML, all the necessary
attributes are set as "userConfigurable=TRUE" with the right privileges
("<Rperm>ADMIN</Rperm> and <Wperm>ADMIN</Wperm>"). Looking at the
Membership module as a template, I saw it puts a configuration file in the
'/opt/SUNWips/locale' directory which is used apparently for editing the
profiles created by this module. I made a similar one for my module, but
with no different results. Does anyone know what I am failing to do?
Thanks,
Mark

Answer 1

You need to import the XML file into the profile server using the ipsadmin
command.
/opt/SUNWips/bin/ipsadmin -import /path/to/your/auth/xml/file
This takes the properties specified in the XML file and actually creates the
attributes in the profile server. And you would most likely want to edit
the properties of this authentication module at the domain level rather than
at the user level.
"Mark Burgess" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I created my own login module (like the existing Membership module) which
extends the Login class. It works just fine, and can create user profiles
and allow people to log in. When I log into the admin console and try to
bring up the user profile to edit the attributes for this module [Manage
Domains->(domain)->(role)->Users->(user)->Authentication(authentication
module)] it displays an error stating 'This profile contains no data which
can be administered.' I know the profile exists (the user can log in, Ican
access the attributes in Servlets and JSPs, and doing a 'ipsadmin get user
(user)' produces the profile). In the login module XML, all the necessary
attributes are set as "userConfigurable=TRUE" with the right privileges
("<Rperm>ADMIN</Rperm> and <Wperm>ADMIN</Wperm>"). Looking at the
Membership module as a template, I saw it puts a configuration file in the
'/opt/SUNWips/locale' directory which is used apparently for editing the
profiles created by this module. I made a similar one for my module, but
with no different results. Does anyone know what I am failing to do?
Thanks,
Mark