WCM Contect Access Error using API - WCM_Workspace W IWKCW1005X: The Member: UserX Could not be found in the User Repository. Reason: UserX

[8/10/11 13:48:23:737 CDT] 0000006e WCM_Workspace W IWKCW1005X: The Member: UserX Could not be found in the User Repository. Reason: UserX
[8/10/11 13:48:23:753 CDT] 0000006e SystemOut O exception is- com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.exceptions.AuthorizationException: IWKPY1015X: Unauthorized access by {PrincipalInformation: {dn: anonymous_user, memberId: anonymous_user_id, displayName: , name: , locale (thread): en_US, isValidUser: true, isUser: Type: User, isUserLazyLoaded: false}, 1, {false, {userAccess={}}, {editorAccess={}}, {managerAccess={}}, [anonymous_user%anonymous_user_id, all_users%all_users_group_id, anonymous_user%anonymous_user_id]}} - IWKPY1016X: Unauthorized access on Company Overview by [anonymous portal user]

Encountered above exception when I was trying to access WCM content using API calls from my portlet. After researching for long and spending multiple nights figuring the reason behind this exception I found that I need to give proper access rights to all the users under "Contributor" tab of the Portal Content > Web Content Libraries > Library Name.

Click on the button with "key" to open the resource permissions for the library. Then click on the button with "key" against "Contributor". Add "All authenticated Portal Users" and "Anonymous Portal Users" to the permissions.

This will resolve the above problem.

More information is available on the below link:

PM42031: REFERENCE PROBLEM IN INLINE EDITING WITH THE JSR-286 WEB CONTENT VIEWER

Custom TAI Interceptor for WAS 6.1.x and upwards

package com.pankaj.test;

import java.util.Properties;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import com.ibm.websphere.security.WebTrustAssociationException;
import com.ibm.websphere.security.WebTrustAssociationFailedException;
import com.ibm.wsspi.security.tai.TAIResult;
import com.ibm.wsspi.security.tai.TrustAssociationInterceptor;

public class PortalCustomTAI implements TrustAssociationInterceptor {


public void cleanup() {
//TODO ... Perform any cleanup here.
}

public String getType() {
return "Custom TAI ... " + this.getClass().getName();
}

public String getVersion() {
return "1.0";
}

public int initialize(Properties prop) throws WebTrustAssociationFailedException {
System.out.println("Portal Custom TAI Initialized ... ");
//TODO Perform any initialization operations here.
return 0;
}

public boolean isTargetInterceptor(HttpServletRequest req) throws WebTrustAssociationException {
System.out.println("Portal Custom TAI isTargetInterceptor ... sessionId : " + req.getRequestedSessionId());
boolean isTAIHandlingRequired = false;
// isTAIHandlingRequired = .... ; //Perform the appropriate operation here to check if this is the right TAI to invoke.
System.out.println("Portal Custom TAI isTargetInterceptor ... : " + isTAIHandlingRequired);
return isTAIHandlingRequired;
}

public TAIResult negotiateValidateandEstablishTrust(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws WebTrustAssociationFailedException {
TAIResult taiResult = null;
System.out.println("1. Portal Custom TAI negotiateValidateandEstablishTrust ... sessionId : " + req.getRequestedSessionId());
String userId = "testUser"; //Perform the appropriate operation here to obtain the user id which needs to be authenticated without password.
if(userId != null && !userId.trim().equals("")){
taiResult = TAIResult.create(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK, userId);
}
System.out.println("2. Portal Custom TAI negotiateValidateandEstablishTrust userId: " + userId);
return taiResult;
}

}

How to add a new base entry to VMM DB?

VMM Database insert statement:

insert into dbentity (entity_id, entity_type, unique_id, unique_name, unique_name_key) values (-3000, 'OrgContainer', 'a9e5a980-3cec-11da-a833-828d43500d21', 'o=testOrg2', 'o=testOrg2');


wimconfig.xml file changes:

<config:repositories xsi:type="config:DatabaseRepositoryType" adapterClassName="com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.db.DBAdapter"
id="DB2MemberRepos" isExtIdUnique="true" supportExternalName="false" supportPaging="false"
.......
.......
entityRetrievalLimit="50" JDBCDriverClass="com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver" saltLength="12">
<config:baseEntries name="o=testOrg1" nameInRepository="o=testOrg1"/>
<config:baseEntries name="o=testOrg2" nameInRepository="o=testOrg2"/>
</config:repositories>


<config:realms delimiter="/" name="defaultWIMFileBasedRealm" securityUse="active"
allowOperationIfReposDown="false">
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=defaultWIMFileBasedRealm"/>
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=testOrg"/>
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=testOrg1"/>
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=testOrg2"/>
<config:defaultParents entityTypeName="OrgContainer" parentUniqueName="o=testOrg"/>
<config:defaultParents entityTypeName="PersonAccount" parentUniqueName="o=testOrg"/>
<config:defaultParents entityTypeName="Group" parentUniqueName="o=testOrg"/>
<config:uniqueUserIdMapping propertyForInput="uniqueName" propertyForOutput="uniqueName"/>
<config:userSecurityNameMapping propertyForInput="principalName" propertyForOutput="principalName"/>
<config:userDisplayNameMapping propertyForInput="principalName" propertyForOutput="principalName"/>
<config:uniqueGroupIdMapping propertyForInput="uniqueName" propertyForOutput="uniqueName"/>
<config:groupSecurityNameMapping propertyForInput="cn" propertyForOutput="cn"/>
<config:groupDisplayNameMapping propertyForInput="cn" propertyForOutput="cn"/>
</config:realms>

<config:realms delimiter="/" name="dbdir.testOrg" securityUse="active" allowOperationIfReposDown="true">
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=defaultWIMFileBasedRealm"/>
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=testOrg"/>
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=testOrg1"/>
<config:participatingBaseEntries name="o=testOrg2"/>
<config:defaultParents entityTypeName="OrgContainer" parentUniqueName="o=testOrg2"/>
<config:defaultParents entityTypeName="PersonAccount" parentUniqueName="o=testOrg2"/>
<config:defaultParents entityTypeName="Group" parentUniqueName="o=testOrg2"/>
<config:uniqueUserIdMapping propertyForInput="uniqueName" propertyForOutput="uniqueName"/>
<config:userSecurityNameMapping propertyForInput="principalName" propertyForOutput="externalName"/>
<config:userDisplayNameMapping propertyForInput="principalName" propertyForOutput="principalName"/>
<config:uniqueGroupIdMapping propertyForInput="uniqueName" propertyForOutput="uniqueName"/>
<config:groupSecurityNameMapping propertyForInput="cn" propertyForOutput="externalName"/>
<config:groupDisplayNameMapping propertyForInput="cn" propertyForOutput="cn"/>
</config:realms>