Is this madness?
by Volker Weber
If you are running WebSphere Portal in a test environment and need security enabled, perform the following steps.
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crazy. that's ibm.
Thats interesting. Very funny, IBM.
Thanks to IBM I found this little note in the Workplace 2.0 deployment guide:
"Note that for a single-server demo deployment you will need a minimum of 6 GB RAM and a quad processor server."
Well, that will help me doing my SMB business.
"If you are running WebSphere Portal in a test environment and need security enabled, perform the following steps."
in conjunction with
"These steps are not supported and are provided as is."
are indeed very "funny". I wonder what those guys at IBM are thinking.
And taking the line "The password is encrypted. If you remove {xor} from the line of password, you can input the password in ASCII directly."
Ahem. If I may quote: "XOR encryption is trivially simply to implement and equally trivial to break. XOR encryption should not be utilized for any data which you would want to protect." http://corky.net/2600/cryptology/xor-encryption.shtml
I'm sure Ed is glad he got out of that madness ;-)
That how-to list is ridiculous, as are the hardware requirements for Workplace and probably everything that has Websphere in the product description.
maybe it's only a insider geek joke ... ;)
well, at least it could be.
Some more IBM security related bashing: Did anyone ever set identical BIOS passwords for both, the "Power on" password and the "Supervisor" password on his IBM Thinkpad R50? The system differs between this two accounts based on the password that is given. If they are the same you can only access your BIOS in "User" mode. No chance to get in as a supervisor anymore. Happy Happy Joy Joy.
@Alexander -- stay tuned for news on the SMB business front.
