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Today, API security has become one of the most important thing. It is a vast field with many approaches and meanings. Most commonly, people refer API security as Authentication and Authorization . Encryption can also be included in this space, but lets keep that aside for separate discussion. For this article, lets just focus on how to use LDAP for API Authentication and Authorization. There are many frameworks like Spring, etc. which can be used to connect your application with LDAP for Authentication. LDAP does not handle Authorization piece but it can return "Groups" and based on that you application can either authorize or deny the request. In this article, we will see following: How to create a user in LDAP How to create a group in LDAP How to assign user to the group in LDAP Refer this link if you wish to setup OpenLDAP on your MAC. I had used JXplorer before but for this article I am going to use Apache Directory Studio . Moreover, I am going to use Apa...

As we all know, the L ightweight D irectory A ccess Protocol ( LDAP ) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. A common use of LDAP is to provide a central place to store usernames and passwords. This allows many different applications and services to connect to the LDAP server to validate users. This has a major benefit that allows a central place to update and change user passwords. With MuleSoft’s LDAP Connector , we can access and maintain directory information services over an IP network by connecting to any LDAP server. LDAP Connector is developed by MuleSoft's developer community and it is categorized as Community Connectors. Latest LDAP Connector documentation is available here . Unfortunately, the information and examples of this connector are limited and scattered all over the web. Today, I am trying to cover as many details as p...