java-tutorials/spring-security-mvc-ldap

Spring Security with LDAP Example Project

Relevant Article:

• Spring Security - security none, filters none, access permitAll
• Spring Security Basic Authentication
• Intro to Spring Security LDAP

Notes

• the project uses Spring Boot - simply run 'SampleLDAPApplication.java' to start up Spring Boot with a Tomcat container and embedded LDAP server.
• Once started, open 'http://localhost:8080'
• This will display the publicly available Home Page
• Navigate to 'Secure Page' to trigger authentication
• Username: 'baeldung', password: 'password'
• This will authenticate you, and display your allocated roles (as defined in the 'users.ldif' file)