LDAP

Geronimo uses the Apache Directory Server for its directory service, this is part of the Apache Directory Project. Geronimo implements the following two projects from the ApacheDS project.

• ApacheDS Core:
  Server's core contains all backend subsystems. It depends on protocol and uses it with seda to service LDAP requests. The core contains the JNDI provider, interceptor framework, interceptor services, the schema subsystem and the database subsystem. Hence the core is the heart of the server.

• ApacheDS Shared:
  Created to eliminate cyclic project dependencies between the core and the maven plug-in. Any code shared across modules in general can go here so long as it does not depend on other modules.

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, jxplorer or gq for browsing and editing the configurations of the Directory Server in Geronimo.

Ensure that the Geronimo server is up and running and the "Directory" application is started. The initial default status for the Directory application in M5 is stopped. To start the Directory application you can use the Geronimo console, after you logged in click on All Configurations on the left panel, look for org/apache/geronimo/Directory and click on Start.

The following values will be required when you configure the LDAP client:

When specifying the User information make sure you append the User DN to the Base DN; in other words, uid=admin,ou=system.

Apache Geronimo can be configured to use two different Web containers, you can either use Jetty or Apache Tomcat. The following sections will address how to configure LDAP on Geronimo for each of these containers.