Friday 26 October 2012

Configuring Adobe CQ to use Apache Directory Service

You can configure Adobe CQ to use a third-party LDAP service that contains user data. By configuring Adobe CQ to use a third-party LDAP service, you can authenticate with Adobe CQ using your user data. That is, you can enter a user located in your LDAP service into CQ login during the login process. This article describes how to setup Apache Directory service, create a new user, configure Adobe CQ to use Apache Directory service, and finally login to Adobe CQ with the new user entered into Apache Directory service.
 As shown in the previous illustration, a user can authenticate with Adobe CQ using user data located in Apache Directory service. To configure Adobe CQ to use Apache Directory service, you configure an Adobe CQ configuration file.

Note: To read this entire article, click this link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/configuring-cq-apache-directory-service.html

Note: This development article is for CQ 5.5.

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I (Scott Macdonald) am a Senior Digital Marketing Community Manager at Adobe Systems with over 16 years in the high tech industry. I am also a programmer with knowledge in Java, JavaScript, C#,C++, HTML, XML and ActionScript. If  you would like to see more CQ or other Adobe Digital Marketing end to end articles like this, then leave a comment and let me know what content you would like to see.

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