Getting Started with WebSphere Application Server

Chapter 8 – Security 147
Figure 8.2 – Create a security realm
The Community Edition admin console provides four predefined realm types and their wizards such
as: Properties File Realm, LDAP Realm, Database (SQL) Realm and Certificate Properties File
Realm. Each can map to one physical method to store user IDs, passwords and group information.
For more information, review the Community Edition manuals at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/wasce/V2.1.1/en/security-realms.html
Note:
Using the LDAP realm, groups and users are defined in an LDAP server; this is
the most common choice in a production environment. For simplicity, we use the
Properties File Realm.
3. In the Create Security Realm - Step 2 panel input the location of Users File and Groups File. First,
let's create two files as illustrated in Listing 8.1 and 8.2 below.
andy=aaa
bill=bbb
cindy=ccc
dan=ddd
Listing 8.1 - hello_users.properties
employee=andy,cindy,dan
manager=bill
Listing 8.2 - hello_groups.properties