I'm trying to secure parts of my Spring 3 MVC web application by authenticating against my organization's LDAP server. I'm new to LDAP so I'm learning as I go. I've been following the documentation here and the example here but I can't seem to get it right.
Here is my security-context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:s="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd">
<!-- Security Configuration -->
<s:http>
<s:intercept-url pattern="/page/tosecure/*" access="ROLE_USER" />
<s:http-basic />
</s:http>
<s:ldap-server root="dc=ldap,dc=sub,dc=myorg,dc=org" url="ldap.sub.myorg.org" port="636" />
<s:authentication-manager>
<s:ldap-authentication-provider user-dn-pattern="uid={0},cn=users" />
<s:authentication-provider ref="ldapAuthProvider" />
</s:authentication-manager>
<bean id="contextSource" class="org.springframework.security.ldap.DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource">
<constructor-arg value="ldaps://ldap.sub.myorg.org:636/dc=ldap,dc=sub,dc=myorg,dc=org" />
</bean>
<bean id="ldapAuthProvider" class="org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.LdapAuthenticationProvider">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.BindAuthenticator">
<constructor-arg ref="contextSource" />
<property name="userDnPatterns">
<list>
<value>uid={0},cn=users</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.security.ldap.userdetails.DefaultLdapAuthoritiesPopulator">
<constructor-arg ref="contextSource" />
<constructor-arg value="cn=groups" />
<property name="groupRoleAttribute" value="cn" />
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</beans>
And here is the error I am getting (the last few causes listed in the stack trace)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.securityContextSource': Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.security.ldap.DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.ldap.BadLdapGrammarException: Failed to parse DN; nested exception is org.springframework.ldap.core.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 5. Encountered: "." (46), after : ""
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1035)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:939)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:294)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:323)
... 106 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.security.ldap.DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.ldap.BadLdapGrammarException: Failed to parse DN; nested exception is org.springframework.ldap.core.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 5. Encountered: "." (46), after : ""
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:162)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:121)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:280)
... 115 more
Caused by: org.springframework.ldap.BadLdapGrammarException: Failed to parse DN; nested exception is org.springframework.ldap.core.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 5. Encountered: "." (46), after : ""
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DistinguishedName.parse(DistinguishedName.java:224)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DistinguishedName.<init>(DistinguishedName.java:174)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.support.AbstractContextSource.setBase(AbstractContextSource.java:207)
at org.springframework.security.ldap.DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource.<init>(DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource.java:67)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:147)
... 117 more
Caused by: org.springframework.ldap.core.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 5. Encountered: "." (46), after : ""
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DnParserImplTokenManager.getNextToken(DnParserImplTokenManager.java:678)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DnParserImpl.jj_consume_token(DnParserImpl.java:231)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DnParserImpl.SpacedEquals(DnParserImpl.java:114)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DnParserImpl.attributeTypeAndValue(DnParserImpl.java:94)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DnParserImpl.rdn(DnParserImpl.java:58)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DnParserImpl.dn(DnParserImpl.java:23)
at org.springframework.ldap.core.DistinguishedName.parse(DistinguishedName.java:218)
It appears that it doesn't like the URL that is listed in the the constructor-arg for the contextSource bean although I'm not sure why.
Also, I have a suspicion that other parts of this configuration are incorrect. For instance, I have the ldap server URL defined in the ldap-server tag and in the contextSource bean. That seems like unneeded duplication but it's how it is done in the examples. Could someone take a good look at the configuration to make sure it is sane?
In addition, in case it's necessary, I'll talk a little about our LDAP server layout since it seems to be a little non-standard. A user's DN is constructed by uid={the_user_name},cn=users,dc=ldap,dc=sub,dc=myorg,dc=org. Group DNs are cn={group_name},cn=groups,dc=ldap,dc=sub,dc=myorg,dc=org and the members of a group are defined by a memberUid attribute. I say this is non-standard because, from what I've read, groups should be defined by an ou instead. But hopefully spring security can handle this setup. Does this configuration properly fetch the roles (groups) a user belongs to?
