696 IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
A.1 WebSphere Member Manager
WebSphere Member Manager (WMM) empowers WebSphere Portal with
advanced capabilities to handle member data and profiles. A member in
WebSphere Member Manager is one of the following: a person, organization,
organizational unit, or group. This is one of the key differentiators from
WebSphere Portal.
Member Manager provides the following to the portal:
A common profile management mechanism for WebSphere products to
access and manage member profiles using attributes regardless of where
and how the data of member profiles is stored. By default, WebSphere Portal
uses seven attributes, namely, a unique identifier, a user password, a group,
a first name, a last n