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5.5.7: Introduction: Setting up an LDAP connection over SSL
This topic describes how to establish an SSL connection between WebSphere
Application Server and an LDAP server. This page gives an overview; refer
to the linked pages for more details.
Setting up an SSL connection between WebSphere Application Server and
an LDAP server requires two logical tasks:
- Establishing a WebSphere-to-LDAP connection without SSL
- Enabling SSL over the WebSphere-to-LDAP connection
To establish a connection between WebSphere and an LDAP server, you must:
- Create certificates and keys for the WebSphere server to use
in authentication, and create a trust store that will also hold
a certificate used for validating certificates for the LDAP
server.
- Configure the LDAP server of your choice.
After you have established the WebSphere-to-LDAP connection, you can
add the SSL constraint to the connection. To do this, you must
- Configure your LDAP server to use SSL.
- Get the necessary certificates for authenticating
the LDAP server and add them to your WebSphere trust store.
- Configure WebSphere to use SSL.
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