I can get LDAP authentication to work. Whats wrong with my configuration?
Note that the permissions for an LDAP directory often do not allow you to read the password for a user. Hence it is often not possible to use the UserDetailsService approach where Spring Security compares the stored password with the one submitted by the user. The most common approach is to use LDAP “bind”, which is one of the operations supported by the LDAP protocol. With this approach, Spring Security validates the password by attempting to authenticate to the directory as the user. The most common problem with LDAP authentication is a lack of knowledge of the directory server tree structure and configuration. This will be different in different companies, so you have to find it out yourself. Before adding a Spring Security LDAP configuration to an application, it’s a good idea to write a simple test using standard Java LDAP code (without Spring Security involved), and make sure you can get that to work first.
