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Spring Security

You're reading from   Spring Security Secure your web applications, RESTful services, and microservice architectures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129511
Length 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Robert Winch Robert Winch
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Peter Mularien Peter Mularien
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Preface 1. Anatomy of an Unsafe Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Spring Security 3. Custom Authentication 4. JDBC-Based Authentication 5. Authentication with Spring Data 6. LDAP Directory Services 7. Remember-Me Services 8. Client Certificate Authentication with TLS 9. Opening up to OAuth 2 10. Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service 11. Fine-Grained Access Control 12. Access Control Lists 13. Custom Authorization 14. Session Management 15. Additional Spring Security Features 16. Migration to Spring Security 4.2 17. Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens 18. Additional Reference Material

Integrating with Microsoft Active Directory via LDAP

One of the convenient features of Microsoft AD is not only its seamless integration with Microsoft Windows-based network architectures, but also that it can be configured to expose the contents of AD using the LDAP protocol. If you are working in a company that is heavily leveraging Microsoft Windows, it is probable that any LDAP integration you do will be against your AD instance.

Depending on your configuration of Microsoft AD (and the directory administrator's willingness to configure it to support Spring Security LDAP), you may have a difficult time, not with the authentication and binding process, but with the mapping of AD information to the user's GrantedAuthority objects within the Spring Security system.

The sample AD LDAP tree for JBCP calendar corporate within our LDAP browser looks similar to the following...

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