Security protocols Confluence uses for syncing with Active Directory
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Question
What is the auth type that Confluence uses with Active Directory?
Environment
6.15.9
Answer
Crowd is using Spring LDAP which in turn using standard Java API. For sync data (between Confluence and Active Directory), Java will use either plain connection or SSL connection to query data from AD. Normally, credentials will be sent in plain text (except LDAP version 3 which support SASL), more information can be found in here.