AEM 6.1 External Authentication Tutorial

This tutorial goes through the steps to setup and configure a LDAP server and the configure AEM to use example data for authentication.

As a bonus track, we show how to build and configure your own identity provider.

Sections

1 Setup Apache Directory Server
2 Configure LDAP Authentication in AEM
3 Test LDAP Authentication in AEM

Bonus

4 Create your own IDP

Resources

• Example ldif file: apache-ds-tutorial.ldif
• Package with AEM 6.1 LDAP example configurations:
  • First config: ldap-first-config-pkg.zip
  • Config with profile: ldap-config-with-profile-pkg.zip

Links

• Apache Jackrabbit Oak
• Oak Security Documentation
• Apache Directory
• Oracle JAAS Authentication Doc