LDAP authorization with Spring Security

 

You saw LDAP authentication with Spring Security in the previous section. Next, we will look at how to perform authorization. Let's recall that authorization is a verification process of whether an entity should have access to something. In short, authorization concerns the rules that will identify who is allowed to do what. After successful authentication, a user can perform various actions, based on the authority they have.

Let's recall that authentication deals with login credentials to verify valid users. Authorization is more of a check of whether a user has the authority to perform various actions, like adding, updating, viewing, or deleting a resource. An authorization happens after the user has been successfully authenticated. In this section, we will look at how to authorize an LDAP...