Starting and Stopping Your Server Instance
Configuring the Server Instance
Configuring the Proxy Components
Configuring Security Between Clients and Servers
Getting SSL Up and Running Quickly
To Accept SSL-Based Connections Using a Self-Signed Certificate
Configuring Key Manager Providers
Using the JKS Key Manager Provider
To Sign the Certificate by Using an External Certificate Authority
To Configure the JKS Key Manager Provider
Using the PKCS #12 Key Manager Provider
Using the PKCS #11 Key Manager Provider
Configuring Trust Manager Providers
Overview of Certificate Trust Mechanisms
Using the Blind Trust Manager Provider
Using the JKS Trust Manager Provider
Using the PKCS #12 Trust Manager Provider
Configuring Certificate Mappers
Using the Subject Equals DN Certificate Mapper
Using the Subject Attribute to User Attribute Certificate Mapper
Using the Subject DN to User Attribute Certificate Mapper
Using the Fingerprint Certificate Mapper
Configuring SSL and StartTLS for LDAP and JMX
Configuring the LDAP and LDAPS Connection Handlers
To Enable a Connection Handler
To Specify a Connection Handler's Listening Port
To Specify a Connection Handler's Authorization Policy
To Specify a Nickname for a Connection Handler's Certificate
To Specify a Connection Handler's Key Manager Provider
To Specify a Connection Handler's Trust Manager Provider
To Enable SSL-Based Communication
Enabling SSL in the JMX Connection Handler
SASL Options for the ANONYMOUS Mechanism
SASL Options for the CRAM-MD5 Mechanism
SASL Options for the DIGEST-MD5 Mechanism
SASL Options for the EXTERNAL Mechanism
SASL Options for the GSSAPI Mechanism
SASL Options for the PLAIN Mechanism
Configuring SASL Authentication
Configuring SASL External Authentication
Configuring SASL DIGEST-MD5 Authentication
Configuring SASL GSSAPI Authentication
To Configure Kerberos V5 on a Host
To Specify SASL Options for Kerberos Authentication
Example Configuration of Kerberos Authentication Using GSSAPI With SASL
Troubleshooting Kerberos Configuration
Testing SSL, StartTLS, and SASL Authentication With ldapsearch
ldapsearch Command Line Arguments Applicable To Security
Testing SASL External Authentication
Controlling Connection Access using Allowed and Denied Rules
Configuring Security Between the Proxy and the Data Source
Configuring Servers With the Control Panel
The LDAP protocol definition provides two ways in which clients can authenticate to the server: LDAP simple authentication and SASL authentication.
Note - SASL is not supported for use with Sun OpenDS Standard Edition proxy.
In LDAP simple authentication, the client specifies the DN and password for the user. This is by far the most common authentication mechanism, and in most cases it is also the easiest to use. However, it has a number of limitations, including the following:
The user is always required to provide a full DN, rather than something that could be more user-friendly like a username.
Only password-based authentication is allowed.
The client must provide the complete clear-text password to the server.
To address these issues, it is also possible to authenticate clients through the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), as defined in RFC 4422. This is a very extensible framework, and makes it possible for servers to support many different kinds of authentication.