The main provider class is LdapAuthenticationProvider. This is configured with an LdapAuthenticator instance and an LdapAuthoritiesPopulator. The latter is used to obtain the list of roles for the user.
LdapAuthenticator | The strategy interface for locating and authenticating an Ldap user. |
AbstractLdapAuthenticationProvider | Base class for the standard LdapAuthenticationProvider and the
ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticationProvider . |
AbstractLdapAuthenticator | Base class for the authenticator implementations. |
BindAuthenticator | An authenticator which binds as a user. |
LdapAuthenticationProvider | An AuthenticationProvider implementation that authenticates
against an LDAP server. |
NullLdapAuthoritiesPopulator | |
PasswordComparisonAuthenticator | An LdapAuthenticator which compares the login
password with the value stored in the directory using a remote LDAP "compare" operation. |
SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource | An AuthenticationSource to retrieve authentication information stored in Spring Security's
SecurityContextHolder . |
UserDetailsServiceLdapAuthoritiesPopulator | Simple LdapAuthoritiesPopulator which delegates to a UserDetailsService, using the name which was supplied at login as the username. |