Selecting The Login Page And Modifying It - Novell ACCESS MANAGER 3.1 SP2 - IDENTITY SERVER GUIDE 2010 Manual

2.1.1 Selecting the Login Page and Modifying It

You must be familiar with customizing JSP files to create a customized login page. You can use any
of the following methods to produce the page:
If you only need to customize the credentials (for example, prompt the user for an e-mail
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address rather than a name), you can make most of the modifications in the Administration
Console. You need to add some properties to a method, create a contract from that method, and
modify the prompt in the
Default Login Page to Prompt for Different Credentials" on page
If you want to maintain the features of the 3.1 page and use its authentication cards but you
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want to remove the Novell branding, you need to modify the
uses iframes, so the devices that your users use for authentication must also support iframes.
For configuration information, see
If you don't need the authentication cards and if the devices that your users use for
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authentication support iframes, you can start with the
configuration information, see
If some of your users are using devices that don't support iframes, you need to customize the
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3.0 login page. For configuration information, see
IMPORTANT: After you have created customized login pages, you need to back them up before
doing an upgrade. The upgrade process overrides any custom changes made to JSP files that use the
same filename as those included with the product.
During an upgrade, you can select to restore custom login pages, but Novell still recommends that
you have your own backup of any customized files.
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file. For configuration information, see
login.jsp
"Customizing the nidp.jsp File" on page
"Modifying the 3.1 login.jsp File" on page
"Modifying the 3.0 Login Page" on page
"Customizing the
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file. The
nidp.jsp
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file and customize it. For
login.jsp
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file
nidp.jsp
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