Spring Security - Third Edition

Configuring the LdapAuthenticationProvider interface

If you've read and understood the explanations throughout this chapter, describing how Spring Security LDAP authentication works behind the scenes, this bean configuration will be perfectly understandable, albeit a bit complex. We'll configure LdapAuthenticationProvider with the following characteristics:

• User credential binding authentication (not password comparison)
• Use of InetOrgPerson in UserDetailsContextMapper

Take a look at the following steps:

1. Let's get to it—we'll explore the already configured LdapAuthenticationProvider interface first, as follows:

        //src/main/java/com/packtpub/springsecurity/configuration/        SecurityConfig.java        @Bean public LdapAuthenticationProvider authenticationProvider ...