Lotus Connections – How to prevent anonymous access

Hi Folks,

Maybe you have heard about or even been using the Lotus Connections, but do not want to open this LC access to anonymous user. This article gives you some hints to make it happen.

Lotus Connections consists of the following features:

1. Homepage
2. Profiles
3. Blogs
4. Dogear
5. Community
6. Activities

To prevent anonymous access to these features (except Profiles), you need to go to the WAS Integrated Console, then change the Security Roles to Users/Groups mapping for each of those applications. That means that you need to change the “reader” role from “everyone” to “authenticated users”.

Particularly for “Profiles”, you need to change the “web.xml” manually.

You can find the web.xml as shown below

Change the content of this file as shown below

and

Hope this will help you.

Cheers.