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Article donated by: Hernan Cunico
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More information about these two projects can be found at the ApacheDS project URL:
http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/apacheds/projects/index.html
At this point, Geronimo does not provide a LDAP client commands for configuring the server. You can use any LDAP client such as ldapbrowser/editor, jxplorer or gq for browsing and editing the configurations of the Directory Server in Geronimo.
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To test the LDAP application open a Web browser and access the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/ldap-demo
The following figure shows the welcome page for the LDAP sample application.
Click on Protect to validate against the LDAP Directory Server.
Enter system as the username and manager as the password and click Login. The username and password you provide here is the same you use to access the Geronimo Web console and it is stored in the Directory Server database. Once you are logged in you should see the following screen.
At this point you have an application that is validating username and passwords against an LDAP Directory Server database based on the security configuration you provided earlier. Now, if you go back to the welcome page and click on Forbidden you should receive a 403 - Forbidden HTTP error similar as the one shown in the following figures.
If you are using Jetty as the Web container:
If you are using Apache Tomcat as the Web container: