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Francis Mariani
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WebFOCUS Security and Administration Version 7 Release 6.1 and higher > WebFOCUS Administration Console > Securing the WebFOCUS Administration Console.

Even though the documentation is in English, I just don't understand what is being described - it is the bare minimum. I would like some examp0les of what is discussed.

It looks like this documentation was written by a techie with no idea that someone less technical may read it.

quote:
WEB. With this setting, the Web server authenticates users and WebFOCUS uses the
value found in REMOTE_USER to determine Console privileges. To have administrative
access to the Console, a user ID must be successfully authenticated by the Web server
and specified in the ADMINISTRATORS variable. The Web server must be configured to
authenticate users and to pass credentials to the WebFOCUS Client in its REMOTE_USER
environment variable.
Does this make any sense to anyone? If so, would you care to elaborate?

Thanks,


Francis


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GamP
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If you select WEB as your authentication method, then WebFOCUS will not actively perform the authentication, but will accept whatever the webserver offers as being a valid user id.
For this to be the case, the webserver needs to be configured to perform the active authentication.
To have administrative authorization the user id that was provided to webfocus will have to be present in the ADMISITRATORS section of the ibiweb.cfg file, which resides in the webfocus client install directory (for instance C:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\client\wfc\web\cgi).

Hope this is somewhat clearer? If not, could you please indicate what part is not clear to you?


GamP
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Francis Mariani
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GamP, Thanks for the explanation.

Does this mean that whatever User Id was configured to be the admin User Id for the Web Server (IBM HTTP Server) could be used as the admin User Id for the WF Admin Console? As long as it was put in the ADMINISTRATORS parameter?

Thanks,


Francis


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GamP
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Yep, these are the two requirements.
It MUST be a valid user for the webserver to allow access.
It MUST be in ibiweb.cfg for WebFocus to allow access.

Nothing else. That's it.


GamP
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Francis Mariani
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GamP. Thanks very much. Much appreciated.


Francis


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