RDBMS Authenticator and Portal Admin

Question

In WLP 8.1, I created a RDBMS Auth and I can see the list of
users/groups in the Weblogic Console. The Portal Admin's user/group
page does not show any users except those authenticated by
DefaultAuthenticator.
Why is Portal Admin not showing the users ? In the previous version any
custom auth (federated or non) showed the users/groups list on Portal
Admin page. Where is the secret switch to add custom auths to the
Portal Admin ?
Is jad'n the only way to work with BEA's products ?

Answer 1

For porting purposes, setting RDBMSAuth as # 1 (per Docs/Greg) and
adding weblogic/portaladmin::Administrators/PortalSystemAdministrators
does the needful.
Gregory Smith wrote:
Bhupi -
Thanks for the feedback. We have been looking at this issue specific to
the portal services for managing users/groups. I'll forward this message
onto the team looking into this.
Greg
Bhupi wrote:
Thanks Greg.
Replacing the following element within the Security element in
config.xml with RDBMS Auth should solve the problem but the default
users/groups have to be in RDBMS (weblogic/portaladmin/...).
<weblogic.security.providers.authentication.DefaultAuthenticator
Name="Security:Name=myrealmDefaultAuthenticator"
Realm="Security:Name=myrealm"/>
The following use-case should be supported out-of box.
If I change the default to RDBMS or LDAP, it should get the
weblogic/portaladmin from the Default (the export dat from embedded
LDAP listed them) if it does not find it in the custom ones.
HOW >> Since the Security Providers can be stacked, a federated
authenticator which should be the default, consider's the
AuthenticationProvider's list instead of individual authenticators.
<weblogic.management.security.Realm
AuthenticationProviders="Security:Name=myrealmDefaultAuthenticator|Security:Name=myrealmDefaultIdentityAsserter|Security:Name=myrealmTwicsAuthenticator"
I know this is another requirement but will make things much easier,
specially for UUP scenarios.
Gregory Smith wrote:
Bhupi -
The portal User/GroupManager services (which the admin portal
utilizes) currently only support 1 Authenticator, generally the
first, most-capable Authenticator listed. That's why you're seeing
only the DefaultAuthenticator users and groups in the admin portal.
There is some information about this in the upgrade guide
(http://e-docs.bea.com/wlp/docs81/upgrade/index.html) under the
Compability Domain chapter. More documentation is planned for in the
coming months to better explain this.
Greg
Bhupi wrote:
In WLP 8.1, I created a RDBMS Auth and I can see the list of
users/groups in the Weblogic Console. The Portal Admin's user/group
page does not show any users except those authenticated by
DefaultAuthenticator.
Why is Portal Admin not showing the users ? In the previous version
any custom auth (federated or non) showed the users/groups list on
Portal Admin page. Where is the secret switch to add custom auths
to the Portal Admin ?
Is jad'n the only way to work with BEA's products ?