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5.5.7: Introduction: Setting up an LDAP connection over SSL

This topic describes how to establish an SSL connection between WebSphere Application Server and an LDAP server. This page gives an overview; refer to the linked pages for more details.

Setting up an SSL connection between WebSphere Application Server and an LDAP server requires two logical tasks:

  1. Establishing a WebSphere-to-LDAP connection without SSL
  2. Enabling SSL over the WebSphere-to-LDAP connection

To establish a connection between WebSphere and an LDAP server, you must:

  1. Create certificates and keys for the WebSphere server to use in authentication, and create a trust store that will also hold a certificate used for validating certificates for the LDAP server.
  2. Configure the LDAP server of your choice.

After you have established the WebSphere-to-LDAP connection, you can add the SSL constraint to the connection. To do this, you must

  1. Configure your LDAP server to use SSL.
  2. Get the necessary certificates for authenticating the LDAP server and add them to your WebSphere trust store.
  3. Configure WebSphere to use SSL.

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