Enabling single sign on for clients via Personal Access Token configuration

Roles: system programmer, system administrator, security administrator

Review this article for steps that enable single sign on via Personal Access Tokens.

Prerequisite using the Caching Service

To enable Personal Access Token support when using the Caching Service, Infinispan is the required storage solution. Infinispan is part of Zowe installation. No additional software or installation is required when using this storage solution.

To enable this storage method, set the value of components.caching-service.storage.mode to infinispan in the zowe.yaml configuration file. For more information on other properties for infinispan and their values see Infinispan configuration.

components:
  caching-service:
    storage:
      mode: infinispan
      infinispan: 
        jgroups:
          port: 7098

Enabling Personal Access Tokens

Use the following procedure to enable Personal Access Tokens.

1. Open the file zowe.yaml.
2. Find or add the property with the value components.gateway.apiml.security.personalAccessToken.enabled: true.
3. Restart Zowe.

For more information about using Personal Access Tokens, see Authenticating with a Personal Access Token.

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To enable Personal Access Token support when using the Caching Service, Infinispan is the required storage solution. Infinispan is part of Zowe installation. No additional software or installation is required when using this storage solution.