Thursday, June 19, 2014

Java - Authenticate users in Active directory and using LDAP

First lets me try to explain you in brief what is Active directory and LDAP

Active Directory is a database based system that provides authentication, directory, policy, and other services in a Windows environment

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an application protocol for querying and modifying items in directory service providers like Active Directory, which supports a form of LDAP.

In short, Active Directory is a directory services database and LDAP is one of the protocols you can use to talk to it.

1. Authenticate users in Active Directory

Directly you can run this code, no need to add any jar file.



2. Authenticate users With LDAP

Here we are using Netscape Directory SDK. To run this program you need to add ldapsdk jar (i.e. ldapsdk-4.1.jar) in classpath