Does anyone know of a Kerberos authentication module for Portal Server? If not, can anyone think of any security implications that would suggest "rolling my own" would not be a good idea?

I have installed the portal mobile access pack calendar channel for single sign on to Calendar. It works fine, but when you get to Calendar it give javascript errors. None of the Calendar functions, options work because of line 1 javascript errors. This is true of IE 5.5 and Gecko.

The url rewriter does not seem to rewrite the url when the following syntax is used with javascript:onClick=self.location='url'Both onClick and self.location are part of the rewrite rules on the gateway.Any ideas?Regards,Twan Janssen

Hi all.Do you know if gateway can rewrite this call to javascript function?:open_mywindow('/images/get_access/help.html','Help','scroll bars=yes,width=600,height=400,left=125,top=125')Thank you very much.Raul G. Martin

We had some questions regarding multifile> transfer of files in> When we wish to transfer say> 100 files at a time, 100 different windows open up.> Is this the only way> to bulk transfer, because its not practical. Any ideas

I noticed this tags in the authentication pages, where are they stored? How do I modify their value? How are they used? A reference to the admin or programers guide is plenty I just couldn't find one. Thanks!

I have the Portal Server installed on one machine and an application running on iAS 6.5 on a different machine.I have tried to invoke the application using a URLScraper channel.In my application, I have done:Session lPortalSession= null;SessionID lsid = null;try{ log("before generating id"); ...

Hi,Just wondering what's the difference between domain and role. When do you create a new domain, and when do you add a new role instead?Thanks,Yi

I have the following piece of javascript to detect an intranet user's NT id by creating an ActiveX component (IE 5.5). How can I pass this to an authentication module/login URL so that users are logged into portal automatically when they request the portal login ...

Hi,I'm running an iPlanet Portal Server 3sp3. When I want to administer the Portal Server through Netscape 6.x,I only get the Navigaton-Bar on the left and (for exapmle) when I click on Manage Domains the list of the domains. If I click on one domain to manage, I get only an empty ...

We are currently using IPS 6.0. In one of forms I have an URL as follows. <form name=frm method=post action= http://192.168.0.201>When I access the page using the gateway, the does not rewrite the URL, at the same when, if I change this url with the machine name, URL rewrite works fine. ...

I have done an install of iPlanet Portal Server on a Solaris 8 machine and when I try to access the main Page I get: [26/Apr/2002:16:15:27] failure (21872): Internal error: exception thrown from the servlet service function (uri=/login): java.lang.NullPointerException, stack: ...

For iPS 3.0 SP2, we installed Hot Patch 5 of portal server but the Hot patch was successfully installed on the portal Server component but not on the portal gateway. After applying HP5 on the Gateway, I couldn't start it. When I backed out the patch it worked right away. I ran "./ippsgateway ...

We've configured a web server to run non-portal application following the instructions in SP3 release notes. We have a jsp such that when a user is logged in to the portal, the jsp can use portal API to get profile informatin and display them. It works if the jsp is ran from the browser, but ...

With a couple thousand users I am looking to see what users are "regular" visitors and which have not been on for months. The problem is that the user is doing nothing more than accessing the profile. There is no trigger to update the timestamp for the atribute I created.

We are trying to get certificate authentication to work for a domain with a URL not equal to "/". At the moment the portal sends us right back at the default domain. Is there any way around that? Regards, Robert

Hi,I'd like to know how can i customize the membership registration on portal server to store only certain values captured during registration to profile server?For instance, i would like to store just the username and some user preferences on Profile server. The rest of the information (e.g. ...

OS : solaris 2.7 with kernel patch 106541-17Iplanet portal server Version 3 All the recommended patches are installed and the iplanet portal server installation was successful and when I try to go into the login console through the port 8080/login/wtadmin , after giving the user name (root) and ...

Hi,I read in the IPS3 SP4 release notes stating that one of the new feature in SP4 is to allow the user to change their membership password. But i didn't see any feature where i can change my password once i log into the portal server desktop. In the ...

Hi,Does anyone knows how can i call a servlet from a click on a link or a form submit in portal server? I'm new to portal server but if on application server we can always dump the servlet in /NASApp/projectname/servlet.class and on the form action or link href just specify ...

Hi All,I have a problem to setup the gateway proxy. I've follow the admin guide to setup the gateway proxy. I enable gateway proxy and use 10443 (default, I think) for the gateway proxy port. I restart the gateway and server, start the ipshttpd and connect to the gateway say gateway.test.com, ...

There must be a way to do this. Pls help.

I have successfully changed the backgroundColor for a channel with setAttributeString(). I verified this using <i>ipsadmin get user /domain/userid</i>. But the channel background color does not change until I restart the server (or maybe logout and back in). How can I get it to ...

Hi,We have 2 portal servers(ie testing and staging). We also have a box which has 2 instances of a web server (ie. testing and staging), each is binded to an ip and each has it own FQDN. Is it possible to configure the web server to run portal applications? We need the staging web server to be ...

Hi,I've just added some fields to the standard registration form and modified the Membership.properties and iwtAuthMembership.xml file accordingly. I've deleted the old component and imported the newly created one. In my Membership.java i did the following :String phAttribute = ...

Is there way to block the URL that is being rewritten from showing on the browser address bar?

I am trying the run the ipsadmin command as follows:"ipsadmin change component iwtUserInfoProvider iwtUserInfoProvider.xml"And I am getting the following error:"Profile change failed. More info: com.iplanet.portalserver.ipsadmin.Component"I just added some more attributes to the xml filethat ...

In iPS 3.0 SP4 installation notes, it is mentioned that Portal Server should not be installed on a system with other server products or other CPU/momory intensive applications. Can you pls let me know what server products are they refering to? I planned to install iPS on a machine which has ...

Using iPS MAP 3.0SP3-01, iMS 5.2, iCS 5.1 on Solaris 8All use iDS 5.1 managed by iDA 1.2 to provision usersand domains. Provisioning works great, you can createa new domain on the fly, add users to it, which canthen be accessed by the other components. Via portaladmin, create the same domain ...

We installed a iPS 3.0 SP4 with MAP on Solaris 8. And we want users to login the Portal by using NoPassword authentication method. When they login Portal successfully, can they use the iCS or iMS channel?

Is it possible to post to a authenticator from an html page containing the form located on an external website?I have developed a custom login module for the portal server, so I tried fiddling a bit and cheating with the states. Problem is the login module still expects to be called first for ...

Hi!Yesterday my iPortal installation was working fine, but today it just crashed. The gateway doesn't start and all logins say I must have a portal profile. Including the portal admin.I've checked the profile with and LDAP Browser and "Authentication requires an iPortal Profile" is ...

I am using Portal server 3.0 Sp4 & getting a error message in the gateway debug file when try to access a servlet running over a different server through the gateway.HTMLTranslator caught UnsupportedEncoding exceptionjava.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: "iso-8859-1"at ...

I was reading someone else's code which uses iwtEditProvider. I saw this in every Release Note too. However, I just can't seem to find formal documentation of what this is or how to use it. I couldn't find this component anywhere in Portal's LDAP server either.Can someone shed some light on ...

I need to scrape external content but my Portal Server lies in my Intranet. The company has a Proxy server that needs authentication in order to browse the Internet.In the gateway settings, I have made the entries:iplanet.com|* Proxyip:proxyport|This works in the sense that the gateway contacts ...

Are there any testing tools for iPS which verify the Gateway rewriter is functioning properly? I want a tool which can traverse the links of the iPlanet portal web page and make sure the content was rewritten so no broken links or images exist.

I need to change the font size on the content page accesed from the Portal Menu bar.I tried editing contentTemplate.html under /etc/opt/SUNWips/desktop/default/iwtDesktop.This does not work. Any ideas?Thanks

Hi,I'd like to know if there's a way to call a method to login user (this is suppose to be verified at an external LDAP) and if successful forward that user to the personalized page (1st page after user has log in)?pls advise. thanks.

I want to specify 2 tabs that should be visible to all users. (The user shouldn't have to log in and create a new tab). We can do this in iPS 6.0 but can we do it in iPS 3.0 sp3a?Regards,Vibha

Hi,I would like to know, which configuration file should i change in order to disable ips server to automatically start up everytime the machine (server) is started. By default the ips will be automatically started everytime the machine is started. I would like to manual start the ips server ...

I've just installed Iplanet portal server 3.0 (no service packs) on a solaris 8 box and can't seem to get to the front page for any of the domains. I created a new domain "test" and can't seem to reach it .. any help would be helpful .. I am following the instruction in the Adminstation ...

I want to access the domain profile object from my provider.i know how to access the domain name using the profile and policy api but how can i get the domain profile object?