We are in the process of supporting X509 certificates for authentication of
users.  It is one thing to accept / authorize via the X509 certificate, but
of course we need to go a step further and validate whether or not the owner
of the certificate is allowed access via an LDAP look up.  We are thinking
about using the EDIPI number on the end of a Common Name (e.g., CN =
firstname.lastname.<edipi number>.  The smart cards that will be used
appends this unique number (EDIPI) on the end of the CN.

I am trying to determine the best possible approach to retreive this EDIPI
number off of the certificate and then use that number to do an LDAP look
up.  Have others tried this and been successful?  I am currently using the
X509CertificateCredentialsToSubjectPrinciplalResolver to obtain the CN for
authentication, but what I am missing is how to obtain that field to then do
an LDAP lookup.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.  I am going to start to look at
the LDAP section of the CAS user manual to see if that will help explain how
to move forward.

Schawn



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