Spring Security - Third Edition

Built-in AD support in Spring Security 4.2

Spring Security added AD support in Spring Security 3.1. In fact, the ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthoritiesPopulator class from the previous section is based on the newly-added support. To utilize the built-in support in Spring Security 4.2, we can replace our entire SecurityConfig.java file with the following configuration:

    //src/main/java/com/packtpub/springsecurity/configuration/SecurityConfig.java    @Bean    public AuthenticationProvider authenticationProvider(){       ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticationProvider ap = new        ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticationProvider("corp.jbcpcalendar.com",       "ldap://corp.jbcpcalendar.com/");       ap.setConvertSubErrorCodesToExceptions(true);       return ap;    }

Of course, if you are going to use ...