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<para>Obtaining the unique LDAP <quote>Distinguished Name</quote>, or DN, from the
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login name. This will often mean performing a search in the directory, unless
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- the exact mapping of usernames to DNs is known in advance.</para>
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+ the exact mapping of usernames to DNs is known in advance. So a user might enter
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+ the name <quote>joe</quote> when logging in, but the actual name used to
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+ authenticate to LDAP will be the full DN, such as
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+ <literal>uid=joe,ou=users,dc=springsource,dc=com</literal>.</para>
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</listitem>
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- <para>Authenticating the user, either by binding as that user or by performing a
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- remote <quote>compare</quote> operation of the user's password against the
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- password attribute in the directory entry for the DN.</para>
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+ <para>Authenticating the user, either by <quote>binding</quote> as that user or by
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+ performing a remote <quote>compare</quote> operation of the user's password
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+ against the password attribute in the directory entry for the DN.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Loading the list of authorities for the user.</para>
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@@ -100,9 +103,10 @@
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]]></programlisting> If used with the server definition above, this would
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perform a search under the DN <literal>ou=people,dc=springframework,dc=org</literal>
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using the value of the <literal>user-search-filter</literal> attribute as a filter.
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- Again the user login name is substituted for the parameter in the filter name. If
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- <literal>user-search-base</literal> isn't supplied, the search will be performed
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- from the root. </para>
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+ Again the user login name is substituted for the parameter in the filter name, so it
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+ will search for an entry with the <literal>uid</literal> attribute equal to the user
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+ name. If <literal>user-search-base</literal> isn't supplied, the search will be
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+ performed from the root. </para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<info>
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