Technical Note: Using Access Manager Distributed Authentication

Building the Distributed Authentication Web Application

The JES 4 Installation Utility installs the distributed authentication package in the AccessManager-base/SUNWcomm/SUNWam, however in order for distributed authentication to function properly, the packages must be located in AccessManager-base/SUNWam. Copy the following files to the AccessManager-base/SUNWam directory and proceed with the steps described in this document:

README.distAuthUI: Contains installation and package instructions.
amauthistui.war: The distributed authentication Web application.
Makefile.distAuthUI: The Makefile.distAuthUIis used to generate and build required web application. The makefile defines targets to build configuration properties and web application and jars

To Build the Distributed Authentication Web Application

Steps

Edit the Makefile.distAuthUI to provide the following required parameters:
- JAVA_HOME
- SERVER_PROTOCOL
- SERVER_HOSTNAME
- SERVER_PORT
- SERVER_DEPLOY_URI
- APPLICATION_USERNAME
- APPLICATION_PASSWORD
- DISTAUTH_DEPLOY_URI
- DISTAUTH_PROTOCOL
- DISTAUTH_HOSTNAME
- DISTAUTH_PORT

Enter the following command to run the makefile:

make -f Makefile.distAuthUI

This command generates a deployable war file (amauthdistui_deploy.war) that can be deployed in any Servlet 2.3 compliant container. The targets defined in the Makefile.distAuthUI are:

properties

Generates AMConfig.properties in the temporary directory. This file is used as a template for setting Access Manager Distributed Authentication Web Application's properties

webapp

Generates amauthdistui_deploy.war that can be deployed on any Servlet 2.3–compliant web container