Weblogic Server LDAP SSL Provider
Author: Christian Screen | | August 14, 2011
Okay this is something that isn’t immediately expressed in most integrations and not highlighted in the Oracle BI documentation but it happens every now and then – A client’s LDAP server is SSL protected and we need to leverage LDAP in our Oracle BI implementation. The long and the short of this method are found here, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e13707/atn.htm#BABDBHAA.
Here’s how to set up the configuration:
- Configure the LDAP Authentication provider. Make sure you select SSLEnabled on the Configuration > Provider Specific page.
- Obtain the root certificate authority (CA) certificate for the LDAP server.
- Create a trust keystore using the preceding certificate. For example, the following example shows using the keytool command to create the keystore ldapTrustKS with the root CA certificate rootca.pem.:keytool -import -keystore ./ldapTrustKS -trustcacerts -alias oidtrust -file rootca.pem -storepass TrustKeystorePwd -noprompt
For more information about creating a trust keystore, see Chapter 11, “Configuring Identity and Trust.”
- Copy the keystore to a location from which WebLogic Server has access.
- Start the WebLogic Server Administration Console and navigate to the server-name > Configuration > Keystores page, where server-name is the WebLogic Server instance for which you are configuring this keystore.
- If necessary, in the Keystores field, click Change to select the Custom Identity and Custom Trust configuration rules.
- If the communication with the LDAP server uses 2-way SSL, configure the custom identity keystore, keystore type, and passphrase.
- In Custom Trust Keystore, enter the path and file name of the trust keystore created in step 2.
- In Custom Trust Keystore Type, enter jks.
- In Custom Trust Keystore Passphrase, enter the password used when creating the keystore.
- Reboot the WebLogic Server instance for changes to take effect.
Resources:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e13707/atn.htm#BABDBHAA
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