If you have encoded URLs in scripting thats protected by WebSEAL, it won't automatically filter it, unless you configure the encoding. For example: Javascript Link Backslash U hex encoded: var a = document.createElement('a'); var label = "http:u002fu002fsomeserver:8080u002fdemou002fblah"; a.href = label; var linkText = document.createTextNode(label); a.appendChild(linkText); a.title = "my title text"; a.href = label; document.body.appendChild(a); Without... Continue Reading →
ISAM for Web – Modify a Request Header
I posted about modifying a HTTP response back in June 2014 here. This month, I had to put together a HTTP transformation rule that would update a Request header. In particular, the Request header was "out of spec" from the HTTP rules for a Content-Type. It simply updated the request header. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet... Continue Reading →
Cannot delete OAUTH grants and devices on ISAM for Mobile
When using ISAM for Mobile, and you access the User Self Service/User Self Care pages for managing OAuth Grants, there is the option to delete and manage your grants. https://<ISAM for Mobile Host>/mga/sps/mga/user/mgmt/html/device/device_selection.html In earlier versions of ISAM for Mobile, the configuration prevented DELETE and PUT operations. This meant that WebSEAL would not allow the... Continue Reading →
IBM Security Access Manager: Protecting your site with Context Based Access
In January, I published an article through developerWorks on protecting your website with some of the new features of the ISAM for Web and ISAM for Mobile appliances. It's available here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mobile/library/se-accessmanager/index.html It makes use of Virtual Host Junctions, WebSEAL authentication levels and the comprehensive context based access engine and one time password capabilities in... Continue Reading →
WebSEAL and Oracle EBS R12 Forms SSO – Mk II
Background: In the latest release of Oracle E-Business, there has been a number of modifications to the security that is applied to their default login form. I captured the initial changes in a blog entry that was posted to on this site here: https://philipnye.com/posts/webseal-forms-sso-into-oracle-ebs-v12/ Disabling the security parameters to make the standard login forms work... Continue Reading →
WebSEAL forms SSO into Oracle EBS v12
Integration Update 04/03/14: An alternative Forms SSO method has been documented here: https://philipnye.com/posts/oracle-ebs-r12-forms-sso-mk-ii/ Background I was asked to look at the configuration for Forms SSO into Oracle E-business suite. They had updated from version 11 to version 12 and it wasn't working with their old fsso.conf. After some analysis, it seemed that the javascript on... Continue Reading →
Sharing ISAM for Web Sessions across Domains
An article has just been released on IBM developerworks on how to use the same sessions across two seperate domains when using Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (WebSEAL): The article is available here. (In the DeveloperWorks transition, it appears to have been lost, thankfully it's in the internet archive!) linked Here It builds on the... Continue Reading →
WebSEAL: Desktop SSO with Forms Authentication Fallback
If you want to use desktop SSO and use a fallback to Forms based authentication when that fails, you need to make sure you have a few settings right: (Assuming you have all the desktop SSO configured properly.) Under the [server] stanza, set the order of the authentication mechanisms. auth-challenge-type = spnego, forms We need... Continue Reading →
Kerberos Ticket on Unix/Linux “Clock Skew too great”
Have been trying for 24hrs now to configure Desktop SSO for WebSEAL (TAMeb). After having no issues on my VM, doing it in the customers environment proved strangely difficult. After trying to run: /usr/krb5/bin/kinit user@DOMAIN.COM Even after fixing the time servers, I continued to get the message: Unable to obtain initial credentials. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Status 0x96c73a25... Continue Reading →
