November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
14h 24m
English
After the user has been successfully authenticated against the LDAP server, authorization information must be determined next. Authorization is defined by a principal's list of roles, and an LDAP-authenticated user's role membership is determined, as illustrated in the following diagram:

We can see that after authenticating the user against LDAP, LdapAuthenticationProvider delegates to LdapAuthoritiesPopulator. The DefaultLdapAuthoritiesPopulator interface will attempt to locate the authenticated user's DN in an attribute located at or below another entry in the LDAP hierarchy. The DN of the location searched ...
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