Simon Krenger

In the past weeks, I was responsible for setting up a new JBoss Application Server for a customer. One thing I had to do was to enable authentication via the customers existing Active Directory for SSO (Single Sign On).

When fiddling with authentication, one is always happy to find examples of existing installations. In this post, I give an example of how to configure LDAP authentication (in this case with Active Directory) in JBoss. While you can find extensive documentation on the JBoss website, I always like it if there is a specific example provided, so here it goes:

login-config.xml