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How to Integrate LDAP with AEM ?

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  AEM - LDAP Integration LDAP (the   L ightweight   D irectory   A ccess   P rotocol) is used for accessing centralised directory services.  You can achieve below vital things with LDAP integration The User accounts can be synchronised between LDAP server and the AEM repository.  The AEM uses LDAP authentication  to authenticate users, with credentials being passed to the LDAP server for validation.  To improve performance, successfully validated credentials can be cached by repository, with an expire timeout. This helps reduce the effort required to manage user accounts as they can be accessed by the multiple applications.  When a user/account is removed from LDAP server validation is no longer granted & access to the AEM is denied.  The following are the AEM steps for integrating the LDAP and using it as your Single Sign On (SSO) source of truth for authenticating AEM Users. In order to have LDAP working with AEM, you need to create three OSGi configurations: An LDAP Identity Pro

AEM ACL and how they are evaluated

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ACL's and how they are evaluated ? AEM Developers, Infrastructure Engineers / Dev-ops teams working in any domain regularly come across a challenge for understanding the ACL & its evaluation mechanism.  Adobe Experience Manager is designed to cater for content authoring of multiple sites by multiple content authors. Naturally, this process needs to be controlled by strict Access Control Lists (ACLs) to manage. AEM WCM uses Access Control Lists (ACLs) to organise the permissions being applied to the various pages. This article addresses in a simple way on how to understand the ACL's , its different ways,  This article covers the following - How can we read and understand the ACL.  Evaluation of user permissions.  Concurrent Permission on ACL Access Control Lists are made up of the individual permissions and are used to determine the order in which these permissions are actually applied. The list is formed according to the hierarchy of the pages under consideration. How can w

Configure/Decoding AEM AuditLogs

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AEM Developers, Infrastructure Engineers / Dev-ops teams working in the financial domain regularly come across a challenge for event auditing in AEM. This helps in identifying most of the activities happening in AEM. Audit logs are a very effective way to debug the content issue & to know what all is happening in your environment and by whom. This article addresses in a simple way on how to enable the audit logs, its different ways, and how to understand the audit logs.  This article covers the following - How can we enable Audit logs in AEM. How can we read and understand the Audit logs/ tools to use it. Audit log on file system in crx-quickstart/logs folder.   Audit logs for User creation / Modification. How can you archive/purge the audit logs. How can we enable Audit logs in AEM?            By Default, the Audit logs are pre-configured in AEM, for a few basic operations of DAM and for all other operations of Pages and replications activity etc.. To ge