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Spring Security

You're reading from   Spring Security Effectively secure your web apps, RESTful services, cloud apps, and microservice architectures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835460504
Length 596 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Application Security FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Anatomy of an Unsafe Application 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Spring Security 4. Chapter 3: Custom Authentication 5. Part 2: Authentication Techniques
6. Chapter 4: JDBC-based Authentication 7. Chapter 5: Authentication with Spring Data 8. Chapter 6: LDAP Directory Services 9. Chapter 7: Remember-me Services 10. Chapter 8: Client Certificate Authentication with TLS 11. Part 3: Exploring OAuth 2 and SAML 2
12. Chapter 9: Opening up to OAuth 2 13. Chapter 10: SAML 2 Support 14. Part 4: Enhancing Authorization Mechanisms
15. Chapter 11: Fine-Grained Access Control 16. Chapter 12: Access Control Lists 17. Chapter 13: Custom Authorization 18. Part 5: Advanced Security Features and Deployment Optimization
19. Chapter 14: Session Management 20. Chapter 15: Additional Spring Security Features 21. Chapter 16: Migration to Spring Security 6 22. Chapter 17: Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens 23. Chapter 18: Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service 24. Chapter 19: Build GraalVM Native Images 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – Additional Reference Material

Determining roles with Jxplorer

We will now try to determine the roles for our user with Jxplorer. Using the connection, we created previously, perform the following steps:

  1. Right-click on World and select Search.
  2. Enter a search base of ou=Groups,dc=jbcpcalendar,dc=com. This corresponds to the baseDn attribute of the DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource object we specified, plus the groupSearchBase attribute we specified for the AuthenticationManagerBuilder object.
  3. Enter a text filter of uniqueMember=uid=user1@example.com,ou=Users,dc=jbcpcalendar,dc= com. This corresponds to the default groupSearchFilter attribute of (uniqueMember={0}). Notice that we have substituted the full DN of the user we found in our previous exercise for the {0} value.
  4. Click on Search.
Figure 6.8 – Role search

Figure 6.8 – Role search

  1. You will observe that the User group is the only group returned in our search results. Click on copy DN of the single result returned by...
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