Technical data

Specifying a Security Realm
Administration Guide 14-31
In UNIX, a user is defined as a member of a group in the following ways:
n The user is defined in a default group in etc/passwd.
n The user ID for a user is included in the etc/group entry for a specific group.
The UNIX Security realm supports only this method of determining the
members of a group.
After you change an ACL, click the Refresh button on the General tab in the Security
to update the information in the
filerealm.properties file that WebLogic Server
uses. If you use Groups with your ACLs, you can reduce the frequency with which you
must refresh the information in WebLogic Server. Changing the members of a UNIX
Group allows you to manage individual Users’ access to WebLogic Server resources
dynamically.
It is possible to run
wlauth to verify authentication. At a UNIX command prompt:
1. Enter
wlauth.
2. Enter
-user_auth username, password.
If the command returns a 0, the authentication check was successful. If the command
returns a 1, the authentication check failed.
To use the UNIX Security realm:
1. Go to the Security
→Realms node in the left pane of the Administration Console.
2. In the right pane of the Administration Console, click the Configure a New UNIX
Realm link.
3. Configuring the UNIX Security realm involves setting attributes that define a
name for the realm and the program that provides authentication services for the
UNIX Security realm. To define these names, specify values for the attributes on
the UNIX Realm Create window of the Administration Console.
The following table describes the attributes you set in the UNIX Realm Create
window.
Table 14-12 UNIX Security Realm Attributes
Attribute Description
Name The name of the UNIX Security realm, such as
AccountingRealm