Enabling and disabling impersonation

By default, user impersonation is enabled, but you can manually disable or enable the impersonation feature as needed.

1. Complete the following steps to disable or enable the impersonation feature:

   • To disable the impersonation feature, run the disable-impersonation task from the [wp\_profile\_root](../reference/wpsdirstr.md#wp_profile_root)/ConfigEngine directory.

     • Windows™

       ConfigEngine.bat disable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

     • AIX® HP-UX Linux™ Solaris

       ./ConfigEngine.sh disable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

     • IBM® i

       ConfigEngine.sh disable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

     • z/OS®

       ./ConfigEngine.sh disable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

   • To enable the impersonation feature, run the enable-impersonation task from the [wp\_profile\_root](../reference/wpsdirstr.md#wp_profile_root)/ConfigEngine directory.

     • Windows™

       ConfigEngine.bat enable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

     • AIX® HP-UX Linux™ Solaris

       ./ConfigEngine.sh enable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

     • IBM® i

       ConfigEngine.sh enable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

     • z/OS®

       ./ConfigEngine.sh enable-impersonation -DWasPassword=password -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DCategoriesList=wp.auth.base

2. Stop and restart the HCL Portal server.

Related information

Starting and stopping servers, deployment managers, and node agents

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Last update: August 25, 2022