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Upgrading Security

f. Click the Membership tab to add the user who can boot WebLogic Server to the Administrators group.

g. Click the Apply button to save your changes.

5.Add the users and groups that you had configured in the 6.x security realm to an Authentication provider.

6.Optionally, define roles for your 6.x users and groups. See Securing WebLogic Resources.

7.Express 6.x ACLs as security policies. See Securing WebLogic Resources.

8.Set myrealm as the default security realm. See Setting the Default Security Realm in Managing WebLogic Security.

9.Reboot WebLogic Server.

Each time WebLogic Server is booted and the server is deployed, the roles and security policies are applied. Subsequent access to the server and its methods are constrained by these roles and security policies until they are changed.

Security Realms

The scope of security realms changed in WebLogic Server 7.0. In WebLogic Server 6.x, security realms provided authentication and authorization services. You chose from the File realm or a set of alternative security realms including the Lightweight Data Access Protocol (LDAP), Windows NT, UNIX or RDBMS realms. In addition, you could write a custom security realm.

In WebLogic Server 7.0, security realms act as a scoping mechanism. Each realm consists of a set of configured security providers, users, groups, roles, and security policies. Authentication and Authorization providers within a security realm offer authentication and authorization services.

You have the following choices when upgrading a 6.x security realm to WebLogic Server 7.0:

„Use Compatibility security to access the users, groups, and ACLs configured in an LDAP, Windows NT, UNIX, RDBMS, or custom security realm. The Realm Adapter Authentication provider in the Compatibility realm can access users, groups, and ACLs stored in a 6.x security realm.

BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 Upgrade Guide

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7 specifications

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