# Recommendations for authenticating access using a ldap database.

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/recommendations-for-authenticating-access-using-a-ldap-database/491>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 1, 2008, 8:37am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/recommendations-for-authenticating-access-using-a-ldap-database/491 "2008-12-01T08:37:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/recommendations-for-authenticating-access-using-a-ldap-database/491/2 "2008-11-30T15:25:38Z")

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Should be pretty easy to do by sending login/authentication parameters to the server onConnect event method through the client side NetConnection.connect(url, [params]…) method. This post covers how to do authentication against a database:

[http://community.wowza.com/t/-/113](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/113)

I believe Java contains the code to communicate with an LDAP server. If you do a little Googling around you should find some sample code. Here is an interesting looking article:

[http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/18/ldaptemplate-java-ldap-made-simple.html](http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/18/ldaptemplate-java-ldap-made-simple.html)

Charlie

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