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You can integrate the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) site to synchronize the Active Directory (AD) user account to login from a third-party LDAP server. After Configuration AEM site to use the third-party LDAP for AD users to authenticate when login on AEM Site. It can be performed in two ways – Simple authentication or SSL.
LDAP – LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an open and cross-platform protocol used for accessing centralized directory services on AEM. It provides the communication language that applications use to communicate with other directory services servers, one such LDAP server is Active Directory. LDAP stores the data (users, passwords, and computer accounts) in a centralized location and shares that information with other entities on the network. In other words, LDAP is a directory services protocol.
Active Directory – Active Directory is a directory services implementation that provides all sorts of functionality like authentication, group and user management, policy administration and more. Active Directory is just one example of a directory service that supports LDAP. Active Directory is a directory server that uses the LDAP protocol. AD Users will authenticate from LDAP.
NOTE – You can also verify the connection on the machine by installing Apache DS. On ApacheDS the users and their definitions can be validated.
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