h1. Basic Security

This chapter gives an overview about some of ApacheDS' security features. It provides both configuration and programming examples. The story begins with options available for authentication. This topic is not only interesting if you want to protect your server itself. Furthermore LDAP servers like ApacheDS are heavily used to authenticate users for other services (learn more about this in the example in section [4.2. User database for Apache Tomcat]). The next section covers authorization, i.e. how to ensure that authenticated have the privileges needed to perform certain tasks. The chapter ends with SSL configuration, which means protecting transmitted data (clear text passwords and other confidential stuff).