HOW TO SYNCHRONIZE AEM WITH LDAP USERS AND GROUPS
HOW TO SYNCHRONIZE AEM WITH LDAP USERS AND GROUPS * LDAP (the L ightweight D irectory A ccess P rotocol) is used for accessing centralized directory services. This helps reduce the effort required to manage user accounts as they can be accessed by multiple applications. One such LDAP server is Active Directory. LDAP is often used to achieve Single Sign On which allows a user to access multiple applications after logging in once. * User accounts can be synchronized between the LDAP server and the repository, with LDAP account details being saved in the repository. This allows the accounts to be assigned to repository groups for allocating the required permissions and privileges. * The repository uses LDAP authentication to authenticate such users, with credentials being passed to the LDAP server for validation, which is required before allowing access to the repository. To improve performance, successfully validated credentials can be cached by the re