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[Security] Added LDAP support to Authenticator system
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| Branch? | master
| Bug fix? | no
| New feature? | yes
| Deprecations? | no
| Tickets | -
| License | MIT
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The last missing authenticator in the new system 🎉
I have no experience with LDAP at all and I didn't succeed in setting up a server locally. So I can't test whether this works, but the unit test works (and also tested in a real app, while adding a `dd()` call in the listener).
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I want to share with you the current state of Security LDAP, how this PR implements it and a possible other solution (which I think I would prefer most). Is there anyone who can share their opinions on this? (hopefully @weaverryan and @csarrazi can share their opinion, as they have most experience on this topic)
1. **Current Solution: An LDAP authentication provider + duplicated `SecurityFactory` classes**
LDAP is done in one centralized authentication provider. This provider is configured by security factories for each core factory (e.g. `form_login` becomes `form_login_ldap`, `http_basic` becomes `http_basic_ldap`).
2. **Implementation in this PR: A listener is executed before the default `VerifyCredentialsListener`, to verify `PasswordCredentials`**
This listener must be configured for each specific authenticator wanting to use LDAP. This is a technique similar to (1). It's a bit difficult to use this for your own authenticator (you need to configure a custom listener service) and still needs the duplicated factory classes
3. **Proposal: Introduce a `LdapCredentials` class and always register a listener**
If an authentictor returns `LdapCredentials`, it'll be checked using the LDAP verification listener. This is the easiest for custom authenticators and would remove the duplicated factories, I can imagine `form_login` getting a new `ldap` sub option to configure the settings.
The main disadvantage (I think) is that we would need to make `LdapCredentials` configure all options: ldap service, dnString, searchDn, searchPassword & queryString. Especially passing around the ldap service seems a bit weird. The main questions here are: Is it weird to pass all these things in the `LdapCredentials`? And, do we really need to support having multiple LDAP configuration sets for different authenticators? Or can we e.g. add a global `security.ldap` configuration, that registers the listener for all authenticators returning `LdapCredentials`?
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