WebLogic, OpenLDAP and Active Directory

Excellent tutorial on how to use Active Directory to authenticate WebLogic users:



Download AD (application mode) here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4201

Follow instructions here http://weblogic-wonders.com/weblogic/2010/12/04/configuring-active-directory-authenticator-with-weblogic-server/



OpenLDAP

For Windows:

Installation instructions http://www.userbooster.de/en/support/feature-articles/openldap-for-windows-installation.aspx (contains link to download)

Start it, then use http://jxplorer.org/ to add users

2 interesting posts by Jambay

https://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer/entry/using_ldap_as_a_userstore_for

https://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer/entry/using_openldap_with_weblogic_s

Personally I quite give up, OpenLDAP seems to be a very unstable and poorly documented product, I install it and when I run I get:

destination attributeType 'samaccountname' is not defined

which is quite obscene for a OOTB installation.