External LDAP + Roles in portal

Folks,
I use weblogic 8.1 portal.
Can we use an external LDAP for storing portal roles? If so, what is supported,
recommended, etc. Does BEA have a recommendation/document on how to support an
environment with multiple domains that share a common LDAP so that we don’t have
to keep them all sync.
Thanks
- Lara

Lara,
The WLS SSPI (plug-in provider architecture) allows you to add additional
role mappers, however the WLS out-of-the-box authorizer and role mapper are
still required for WLP. Also, in a WLS domain/cluster each managed server
has a copy of the LDAP which is automatically kept in sync by the admin
server.
-Phil
"Lara Man" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Folks,
I use weblogic 8.1 portal.
Can we use an external LDAP for storing portal roles? If so, what issupported,
recommended, etc. Does BEA have a recommendation/document on how tosupport an
environment with multiple domains that share a common LDAP so that wedon't have
to keep them all sync.
Thanks
- Lara

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Usage of external LDAP server with Portal

Hi All,
We are in a situation to use external LDAP server with WLP 8.1. These are the
constraints we have to deal with:
1. Only read is allowed from this LDAP server.
2. This would be used for authentication purpose
If thats the case, how can we use Visitor Entitlements/Delegated Admin and Group
creation using Portal Admin tool since this will write to the configured LDAP
server.
Can somebody answer my question:
1. Can we use external LDAP server - just for authetication (I know this is possible
by using JAAS LoginModule, but I just want to get confirmed on this ) and
2. Use default and embedded LDAP server for all others like Group/Visitor Entitlements/DAs.
Any relevant pointers are also welcome.
TIA,
Prashanth Bhat.

Thanks for th ereply. Some of your answers are not clear. Can you pls eloborate
on this?? Pls see my comments below.
"Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Phil,
Can I use embedded LDAP for production?
Thanks
Lawrence
"Phil Griffin" <BEA> wrote:
"Prashanth " <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
Hi All,
We are in a situation to use external LDAP server with WLP 8.1. Theseare
the
constraints we have to deal with:
1. Only read is allowed from this LDAP server.
2. This would be used for authentication purpose
If thats the case, how can we use Visitor Entitlements/Delegated Adminand
Group
creation using Portal Admin tool since this will write to the configuredLDAP
server.
Can somebody answer my question:
1. Can we use external LDAP server - just for authetication (I knowthis
is possible
by using JAAS LoginModule, but I just want to get confirmed on this) and
>
You can add the external LDAP server just for authentication, but in
versions through
8.1 SP2 WLP will want to verify the user exists (via the UserReaderMBean)
during
the login process (this check has been removed in SP3). A work around
is to
duplicate
the user in a provider that does impl UserReaderMBean.
Prashanth : You mean to say we have to duplicate the User in embedded LDAP server
also??
>>
2. Use default and embedded LDAP server for all others like Group/VisitorEntitlements/DAs.
>
Yes, the default/embedded LDAP can still be used for DA/visitor
entitlements. In the current
release, the Portal Admin Tools can only be configured to use a single
authentication provider
while forming entitlements. In SP3, all configured providers are
listed/usable by the tools.Prashanth : How can we configure Portal Admin tool to use authentication provider
for entitlements??
>>
Any relevant pointers are also welcome.
TIA,
Prashanth Bhat.

Can I map iwtUser-role to an attribute in external LDAP???

Hi,
I am using external LDAP for authentication. In the Ext. LDAP I am using
there is an attribute named title in every user cn. I want to use this
attribute for portal to decide which role the user belongs to. I mapped
iwtUser-role to title in Ext. LDAP configuration. When I go to console I
see user(s) under the roles defined in title attribute(in Ext. LDAP).
From console if I try to change the desktop profile of a role and check
'apply changes to all subroles', it's not applying changes to all users
who have the title as that role (even though when I go to that user(s),
I see them under the right tole). However, when I look at the
iwtUser-role attribute in profile LDAP using a LDAP browser it shows
/domainname/defaultRole which is not the value mapped (in Ext. LDAP). Do
you have any idea why it is happeing? I would like to know if mapping
iwtUser-role to an attribute in Ext. LDAP is right thing in the first
place (I am doing this because the Ext. LDAP is already populated, I
have no roles in that, all users are at same level and I have permission
to change title attribute only in Ext. LDAP).
Thanks,
Siva Kancheti.

Block off the default role if you don't want anyone going into that role but only
the ones defined. You can do this by setting the filter to a value that will return
nothing. (example, title=nonexistant), since the search filter will not return
results, no one will be placed in that role (otherwise have to manually go into that
role and 'move' users).
Hope this helps,
Manon
Siva kancheti wrote:
Hi,
I am using external LDAP for authentication. In the Ext. LDAP I am using
there is an attribute named title in every user cn. I want to use this
attribute for portal to decide which role the user belongs to. I mapped
iwtUser-role to title in Ext. LDAP configuration. When I go to console I
see user(s) under the roles defined in title attribute(in Ext. LDAP).
From console if I try to change the desktop profile of a role and check
'apply changes to all subroles', it's not applying changes to all users
who have the title as that role (even though when I go to that user(s),
I see them under the right tole). However, when I look at the
iwtUser-role attribute in profile LDAP using a LDAP browser it shows
/domainname/defaultRole which is not the value mapped (in Ext. LDAP). Do
you have any idea why it is happeing? I would like to know if mapping
iwtUser-role to an attribute in Ext. LDAP is right thing in the first
place (I am doing this because the Ext. LDAP is already populated, I
have no roles in that, all users are at same level and I have permission
to change title attribute only in Ext. LDAP).
Thanks,
Siva Kancheti.

Authentication in weblogic portal server 8.1 sp2 using external LDAP

Hi,
I am trying to use external LDAP for authentication.
I have configured the ActiveDirectoryAuthenticator giving the necessary
values
( and added
"-Dcom.bea.p13n.usermgmt.AuthenticationProviderName=ActiveDirectoryAuthentic
ator" in startWeblgoic.cmd )
and can see the users and the groups from my LDAP provider in the admin
console and in the admin portal's "users and groups".
A set of users are given permission to access the restricted site and those
users are visible in the global role with the permission.
The web.xml is configured for BASIC auth-method, and the role is
<externally-defined/> in weblogic.xml.
Now when I access a restricted page, I am shown a dialog prompt to key in
the username and password.
Even when I key in the valid credentials, the restricted page is not shown
and an "Unauthorized xxx" 401 access error is thrown.
Any clue, on what i am missing.?
Please let me know if any suggestion / idea.
Regards,
Arun.

Assuming your application is a WebLogic Portal application, then yes you would definitely need to install WLP 8.1. WLP version 8.1 is the only version of WLP that will run on WLS/WLW version 8.1.
In order to obtain the product installer, you'll need to contact Oracle Support and file a request. It is not available for download from any Oracle public site. Only version 10.3 is available for download.
Brad

External ldap mapping & portal 6.2

Hello
To my knowledge external ldap mapping is not supported in portal 6.0 & portal 6.1, my question is it implemented in portal 6.2 ?! , If not is there any workaround that can solve this issue and considered as a professtional solution !

Yes, you can do authentication against your existing
external LDAP and dynamicaly create user profiles
in your local LDAP(which can be physically on a different box)
The "professtional name" for this configuration is:
LDAP "profile server" with "external authentication" LDAP.
Cheers,
Alex :-)
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Role of LDAP server in portal

HI
Can any one tell me what is the role of LDAP server in portal
Thanks
shashank

Hi Shashak,
if you use the LDAP Server as UME User Store, the security policy from the LDAP server is enforced. This means that if the data source has defined its own security policy, there is no standard interface to pass on any error messages received from the data source to the UME user in the same level of detail and in the correct language. The user only receives a very generic error message. Therefore, you would need to adapt the Portal security policy accordingly. You can find some further information under http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/7f/c52442ad9f5133e10000000a155106/frameset.htm.
More general information on LDAP integration you can find under http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3b/68ff407765ed6fe10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm.
Best regards,
Joerg

Issue while integrating external LDAP with weblogic

Hi,
i am trying integrating external LDAP (OpenLdap) with weblogic 10.3. I created a provider and provided required credentials and able to see users and group of the LDAP into the weblogic console. I am also able to login in the weblogic console with the users available in the LDAP after assigning the admin role to the ldap group. But i when i see the user's property (by clicking on the user in the admin console) it only shows the tabs for General, Password and Group only. on the other hand if i see the users from DefaultAuthenticator, it shows the Attribute tab apart from the General, Password and Group.
Can anyone let me knwo how can we get the Attribute tab for the Ldap users.
thx,
Ajay

Hi Ajay
By default Weblogic has READ ONLY adapters for any External Security Providers that are configured like any AD Providers. READ ONLY means, you can only read the data from the ldap but not modify it, hence may be its not showing the Attributes tag. For Default Authenticator, see the first paragraph note in Attributes tab, that says the same thing. NOW, may be WLS can atleast show Attributes in READ only format, but it needs some sort of mappings to be defined. Say on Weblogic side, we have like firstName, lastName which on any typical AD will be like sn (surname = lastname), givenname (firstname) etc etc. This mapping is tough to generalize.
One thing for sure is, from Weblogic you cannot modify or edit any attributes for any user in external AD. If you really want to get those attributes, you may need to use some javax.ldap apis or some 3rd party ready to use tools/apis. I remember Weblogic Portal has a facility to configure a xml file that defines attributes mapping and get all attributes for any user. But again thats in Weblogic Portal product and not part of weblogic server.
If you have any SOA Software, they have some utilities for the same.
Thanks
Ravi Jegga

How to add user to external LDAP programmatically?

Hello.
I have portal application in JDeveloper. Here is code that adds user to WLS embedded LDAP:
JpsContextFactory jps = JpsContextFactory.getContextFactory();
JpsContext jpsContext = jps.getContext();
IdentityStoreService storeService = jpsContext.getServiceInstance(IdentityStoreService.class);
IdentityStore is = storeService.getIdmStore();
UserManager mn = is.getUserManager();
RoleManager rm = is.getRoleManager();
Principal p = mn.createUser(username,password.toCharArray()).getPrincipal();
Role r = is.searchRole(is.SEARCH_BY_NAME, "Administrators");
rm.grantRole(r, p);
But I also have external LDAP on my WLS. How can I add users to external LDAP programmaticaly?

System Preferences > Users & Groups > Unlock the lock on the bottom left > click the plus sign on the bottom left

Problem with LDAP in BEA Portal

Problem with LDAP in BEA Portal
I have a list of 50 user which should be cerated in portal staging(devlopment) machine and should be transfered to
production machine using LDAP
Steps which i followed to create Users
1.Create User Profile with 2 parameters branch and Role
2.I have list user in the Xls file with Username,password ,branch and Role
3.Write a java File which will read the Xls File
4.The users are created in the staging machine for the portal
Steps which i followed in LDAP to tranfer the created User form Devlopment to Production
1.Export the created user from Devlopment (which was moved as .DAT in my local directory)
2.import the user from local direcory to production machine
The Users are imported in the production machine with username and password but the role and branch values are empty
We need a solution for importing the user with role and branch corresponding to each user.
Thanks in Adv
Suresh

In Portal 8.1, user name and password in stored in LDAP where as user profile values are stored in database. That is the reason you are not able to see the user profile values.
Check once again whether you can see these values through admin tool. In case,it is not(after confirmation again),you might have to use APIs to do this for you incase you dont want to manage through Admin Tool.
Thanks,
Prashanth Bhat.

How to access an External LDAP on a weblogic server using OPSS APIs.

Hi,
Can anyone let me know how I can access an External LDAP configured on a weblogic server using OPSS APIs( or alternative APIs).
I'm currently using the below snippet and I'm getting only the Users and groups from the DefaultAutheticator on the weblogic server and not the external LDAP Server.
I've verified the providers, users and groups on the weblogic server console and can see that external LDAP server content is being picked, but my below code does not query them.
import oracle.security.idm.IMException;
import oracle.security.idm.IdentityStore;
import oracle.security.idm.Role;
import oracle.security.jps.JpsContext;
import oracle.security.jps.JpsContextFactory;
import oracle.security.jps.JpsException;
import oracle.security.jps.service.idstore.IdentityStoreService;
List<Role> rowData = null;
JpsContextFactory ctxf = JpsContextFactory.getContextFactory();
JpsContext ctx = ctxf.getContext();
IdentityStoreService storeService = ctx.getServiceInstance(IdentityStoreService.class);
IdentityStore idStore = storeService.getIdmStore();
rowData = this.getRoles(idStore, "*");
Any help or pointers are highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bhasker

Can anyone please provide any suggestions. I trying to google around but still not able to find any solution.
Thanks,
Bhasker

Steps to connect an external LDAP

Dear Gurus,
What are the steps to connect an external LDAP like ADS.
Pls let me know the step by step procedure e.g.
creating the admin,guest and ??? users in Portal.Deleting the same from the LDAPs and so on.
Thanks for the help.
Nirmal

Hi,
Check the below link for LDAP connectivity...
Integrated Windows Authentication with SAP EP 6.0 SP 3 and higher Part 1 of 2
Regards
Vasu

Error while configuring external LDAP user store with weblogic

Hi,
I have weblogic 10.3 installed and I can access weblogic admin console using weblogic (admin) user. I want to use external ldap user store to access admin console with users present in external ldap.
To do this, I have configured authentication provider and provided all the required details to connect to ldap.
For example:
Base DN: cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=dscc (user with which we will connect to LDAP)
User DN: ou=People,dc=test,dc=com
Group DN: ou=Groups,dc=test,dc=com
This authentication provider is set to SUFFICIENT mode. I have deleted the default authentication provider.
In the boot.properties file I have given the user name and password of the user with which LDAP instance was created something like below.
password=xxxxxxx
username=admin
Now while starting the admin weblogic server, I am getting the below error:
<Jul 25, 2012 2:22:28 PM IOT> <Critical> <Security> <BEA-090402> <Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid; The user name and/or password from the boot identity file (boot.properties) is not valid. The boot identity may have been changed since the boot identity file was created. Please edit and update the boot identity file with the proper values of username and password. The first time the updated boot identity file is used to start the server, these new values are encrypted.>
<Jul 25, 2012 2:22:28 PM IOT> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid; The user name and/or password from the boot identity file (boot.properties) is not valid. The boot identity may have been changed since the boot identity file was created. Please edit and update the boot identity file with the proper values of username and password. The first time the updated boot identity file is used to start the server, these new values are encrypted.
weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid; The user name and/or password from the boot identity file (boot.properties) is not valid. The boot identity may have been changed since the boot identity file was created. Please edit and update the boot identity file with the proper values of username and password. The first time the updated boot identity file is used to start the server, these new values are encrypted.
at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.doBootAuthorization(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:960)
at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.initialize(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:1054)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityServiceManager.initialize(SecurityServiceManager.java:873)
at weblogic.security.SecurityService.start(SecurityService.java:141)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090304]Authentication Failed: User admin javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090302]Authentication Failed: User admin denied
at weblogic.security.providers.authentication.LDAPAtnLoginModuleImpl.login(LDAPAtnLoginModuleImpl.java:261)
at com.bea.common.security.internal.service.LoginModuleWrapper$1.run(LoginModuleWrapper.java:110)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.bea.common.security.internal.service.LoginModuleWrapper.login(LoginModuleWrapper.java:106)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
<Jul 25, 2012 2:22:28 PM IOT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FAILED>
<Jul 25, 2012 2:22:28 PM IOT> <Error> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000383> <A critical service failed. The server will shut itself down>
<Jul 25, 2012 2:22:28 PM IOT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FORCE_SHUTTING_DOWN>
Can anyone please suggest how to resolve this problem? If, anyone can suggest the exact steps to configure external ldap store to manage admin console via ldap users.
Regards,
Neeraj Tati.

Hi,
Please refer the below content that I found for Oracle 11g in the docs.
"If an LDAP Authentication provider is the only configured Authentication provider for a security realm, you must have the Admin role to boot WebLogic Server and use a user or group in the LDAP directory. Do one of the following in the LDAP directory:
By default in WebLogic Server, the Admin role includes the Administrators group. Create an Administrators group in the LDAP directory, if one does not already exist. Make sure the LDAP user who will boot WebLogic Server is included in the group.
The Active Directory LDAP directory has a default group called Administrators. Add the user who will be booting WebLogic Server to the Administrators group and define Group Base Distinguished Name (DN) so that the Administrators group is found.
If you do not want to create an Administrators group in the LDAP directory (for example, because the LDAP directory uses the Administrators group for a different purpose), create a new group (or use an existing group) in the LDAP directory and include the user from which you want to boot WebLogic Server in that group. In the WebLogic Administration Console, assign that group the Admin role."
Now in my LDAP directory, setup is in such a way that Administrators is a group created under following heirarchy " cn=Administrators,ou=Groups,dc=test,dc=com" and there is one user added in this Administrators group.
The problem that I am having is when I modify the Admin role in which Administrators group should be added what exaclty I should give in Admin role. Whether I should give only Administrators or full DN: cn=Administrators,ou=Groups,dc=test,dc=com ???
When i give full DN, it takes every attribute as different, i mean cn=Administrators as different and ou=Groups as different and shows a message that cn=Administrators does not exist.
Here not sure what to do.
Also if external ldap authentication provider is the only provider then I need to give the user information in boot.properties file also for weblogic to boot properly. Now, what should I give there in user? still complete DN ??
Regards,
Neeraj Tati.

Use of external LDAP server in Weblogic Commerce Server

I'm using the following software:
Iplanet Directory Server v5
Weblogic Application Server v6
Weblogic Commerce v3.5
I need to configure Weblogic Commerce Server to use Iplanet Directory Server directory
services. How do I do that?
I have a couple of questions related to this:
1) As Weblogic Commerce Server runs on top of Weblogic v6, does it mean that to
use an external LDAP server, I need to configure weblogic v6 to do that and not
Weblogic Commerce Server?
2) Whatever may be the case above, how do I do that?
3) config.xml (weblogic application server v6) contains information that needs
to be modified to point to an external JNDI source provider but what information
do I need to modify?
I'd really appreciate if someone can help me out here. Thanks!

"JP" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Hi,
I'm looking for someone who has used the Lotus LDAP server for WLP7
authentication.
I connect my portal to the Domino LDAP, User and Groups are working
fine, but the membership of a user to a group is not.
I assume that it's related to the parameters I use (especially the
membership.filter ?):
"user.filter=(&(uid=%u)(objectclass=person));
user.dn=O=Apac;
membership.filter=(&(uniquemember=%M)(objectclass=groupOfNames));
group.filter=(&(cn=%g)(objectclass=groupOfNames));
server.host=jpgal01.apac.bea.com;
group.dn="
Any help would be appreciate, because I just don't where to look for.
Try setting the com.netscape.ldap.trace property.
\* When -D command line option is used, defining the property with
* no value will send the trace output to the standard error. If the
* value is defined, it is assumed to be the name of an output file.
* If the file name is prefixed with a '+' character, the file is
* opened in append mode.
This will create a ldap trace file of the requests that WLS is making on the
LDAP server. You can then see
where the filters are not returning the correct value for the group
membership.

Identity Server using external LDAP

anyone have idea whether ID Server can use external an LDAP server for authentication, like the Policy Server in Portal Server 3 ?
Wilson.

You typically need to use our JNDI store. We strongly recommend this for
performance reasons..
You can use the JNDI To LDAP bridge which is available from the sun web
site.
Michael Girdley
BEA Systems Inc
"Jack Archer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I'm trying to find out if it is possible to re-direct JNDI calls to the WL
server to an external LDAP server. I know you can install an external LDAP
server for security purposes, but I would like to use an external LDAP
server to handle all JNDI lookups (like for JNDI EJB name location, etc.).
Is this possible?

RoleMapper with an external LDAP

Dear friends,
We use an external LDAP to store information related to users, groups and roles. We have managed to configure an out of box LDAP Authenticator within our realm for authentication. We wanted some guidance on configuring or writing RoleMapper.
1) What is good practise in terms of storing and managing roles? Is it a common practise to store roles in an external LDAP or do people use Admin console to created roles within the embedded LDAP? The advantage with the Embedded LDAP is definitely that you could use out of the box RoleMapper and the disadvantage is that we could not extend LDAP schema to store hierarchical roles.
2) If we store and manage roles in an external LDAP store, the same one where we store users and groups, could we still use the out of the box role mapper? If not, could someone provide a sample role mapper that uses an external LDAP store.
3) Why WebLogic doesn't provide an out of the box Role Mapper that connects to an external LDAP?

All Users Filter: (&(&(uid=*)(objectclass=person))(!(quitdate=*)))
User From Name Filter: (&(&(uid=%u)(objectclass=person))(!(quitdate=*)))
User Name Attribute: uid
Here you're configuring that uid is the key of your users in OID. And in your case user A and B has the same uid, so the webcenter can login using user B, but when realize a search uid=jack ldap returns the first one.
Make any sense for you?
Hope that I help you

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