Configuring AD authenticator with Weblogic server

Configuring Active Directory authenticator with Weblogic server

Original blog from  http://weblogic-wonders.com/weblogic/2010/12/04/configuring-active-directory-authenticator-with-weblogic-server/ LINK

Weblogic Server comes with an Embedded LDAP Server which acts as the Default Provider for authentication, authorization and rolemapping.Since authentication is based on JAAS ( Java Authentication and Authorization Service), we can have external providers as well.These providers can be Out Of the Box Providers provided by WLS or Custom Providers which can be plugged in. I’ll discuss that in some other article.
These are some of the providers





WLS does provide an out of the box provider for Active Directory.
These are the steps to configure it.
Step 1). Open Active Directory Console
Step 2). Create a User
Step 3). Assign it to Administrator Group. This is required as Active Directory gives connection only to Admin User.

Step 4). Go to Weblogic Server and Create an Active Directory Authentication Provider
Step 5) Under Provider Specific, provide the following values, leave the others as default.
Propagate Cause For Login Exception ( checked)
Principal :CN=aduser,CN=Users,DC=faisal,DC=bea,DC=com
User Base Dn : CN=Users,DC=faisal,DC=bea,DC=com
Credential : XXXXXX
Group Base Dn: CN=Users,DC=faisal,DC=bea,DC=com
You should see the following in the config.xml

ActiveDirectory
SUFFICIENT
false
CN=aduser,CN=Users,DC=faisal,DC=bea,DC=com
CN=Users,DC=faisal,DC=bea,DC=com
{3DES}YoOwqSH1jxsOlvUmAYOENw==
CN=Users,DC=faisal,DC=bea,DC=com
Step 6) Change the control flag of the Active Directory Authenticator and the Default Authenticator to SUFFICIENT

Step 7) Restart your server. Go to myrealm. You should be able to see the users and groups from the Active Directory.





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