Spring Security - Third Edition

Binding as a user to LDAP

Now that we have found the full DN of our user, we need to try to bind to LDAP as that user to validate the submitted password. These steps are the same as in the anonymous bind we already did, except that we will specify the credentials of the user that we are authenticating.

Within ApacheDS, create a connection using the following steps:

1. Select File | New | LDAP Browser | LDAP Connection.
2. Click on Next.
3. Enter the following information and click on Next:
   • Connection name: calendar-user1
   • Hostname: localhost
   • Port: 33389
4. Leave Authentication Method as Simple Authentication.
5. Enter the DN from our search result as Bind DN. The value should be uid=[e-mail],ou=Users,dc=jbcpcalendar,dc=com.
6. The Bind password ...