Portal 7 and embedded LDAP server

Question

I searched for this on support but nothing much came up on Portal 7, so here
goes:
We're thinking of moving to LDAP for user authentication. LDAP 2 is
supported by the current Portal. What LDAP version is supported by the
embedded LDAP server that comes with WLS? Can I convert sooner or later?
Do I have to wait on something?
Should I put off putting my users into LDAP 2 (OpenLDAP) or wait and use the
embedded LDAP?
Thanks,
Steve

Answer 1

Ture,
Can use LDAP for UUP without using it for authentication/authorization? If so,
how, or at least can you kindly point to a document that descrips how?
Thanks
Ture Hoefner <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Steve,
I think you may be confusing the LDAP v2 specification with the WLS
6.x, 7.x
V2 LdapRealm. The "V2" in "V2 LdapRealm" does not have anything to do
with the
LDAP v2 spec. It is just version 2 of the LdapRealm (
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/secmanage/security6.html#1071872 )
Portal
doesn't really care which LDAP server you are using (and it works with
both the
original LdapRealm and the V2 LdapRealm).
When using Portal with LDAP, there are three things you can use it
for:
1) authentication/authorization, using WLS security framework, and/or
2) read-only Unified User Profile (UUP) via LdapPropertyManager in
ldapprofile.jar to get user properties from LDAP, and/or
3) read/write UUP via your own custom EntityPropertyManager to get/set
user
properties from LDAP.
If you are using LDAP for authentication/authorization, then just follow
instructions from WLS for configuring it. Your Portal app is a J2EE
app that
will use this service from your WLS app server.
If you are using LDAP for a UUP then it doesn't really matter which LDAP
server
you use, as long as it really follows the LDAP spec. Portal just uses
JNDI to
search for attributes in the LDAP server and provides them to you as
user
properties.
Steve Lewis wrote:
I searched for this on support but nothing much came up on Portal 7,so here
goes:
We're thinking of moving to LDAP for user authentication. LDAP 2 is
supported by the current Portal. What LDAP version is supported bythe
embedded LDAP server that comes with WLS? Can I convert sooner orlater?
Do I have to wait on something?
Should I put off putting my users into LDAP 2 (OpenLDAP) or wait anduse the
embedded LDAP?
Thanks,
Steve--
Ture Hoefner
BEA Systems, Inc.
4001 Discovery Drive
Suite 340
Boulder, CO 80303
www.bea.com