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Spring Security - Third Edition
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Spring Security - Third Edition

by Mick Knutson, Robert Winch, Peter Mularien
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
14h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring the UserDetailsContextMapper object

As we noted earlier, an instance of the o.s.s.ldap.userdetails.UserDetailsContextMapper interface is used to map a user's entry into the LDAP server to a UserDetails object in memory. The default UserDetailsContextMapper object behaves similarly to JpaDaoImpl, given the level of detail that is populated on the returned UserDetails object—that is to say, not a lot of information is returned besides the username and password.

However, an LDAP directory potentially contains many more details about individual users than usernames, passwords, and roles. Spring Security ships with two additional methods of pulling more user data from two of the standard LDAP object schemas—person and inetOrgPerson ...

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