User Guide Integrating LDAP with Payara® Server The Payara® Platform - Production-Ready, Cloud Native and Aggressively Compatible. Integrating LDAP with Payara® Server Contents Starting the LDAP Server 1 Configuring Security 5 Creating a Web Application 6 Extracting User Information 11 Seamless Authentication and Authorization 17 About Payara Services, Ltd 18 Integrating LDAP with Payara® Server If you work in an organization with a robust IT department, it’s very likely that you are using a LDAP server to handle your user directory information. You probably have to follow some general guidelines dictating that all web applications deployed within the organization’s infrastructure must access this user directory; and must authenticate and authorize the users that will interact with them. This is a very common scenario nowadays. In this guide, I will illustrate the implementation of the LDAP integration using a sample scenario: integrate Payara® Server with a LDAP user directory and manage the authentication and authorization of a sample web application. Starting the LDAP Server There are many different LDAP server implementations in the market today (in both commercial and open source models). For our scenario, we will quickly start an OpenDJ instance using a Docker container and set up a directory domain with some test users and groups. First, we start with a new Docker image that will download the OpenDJ binaries and run them in a container. This is a Java based image, since OpenDJ needs the JDK to run: FROM java:8 MAINTAINER Fabio Turizo <
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