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+# KafkaPlainSaslServer2AD
+Enhancing kafka PlainSaslServer with LDAP binding
+
+./gradlew clean build
+./gradlew shadowJar
+
+The latter will create the <name><version>-all.jar to be placed into <java home>/jre/ext 
+In addition add the following to java.security
+security.provider.11=org.navit.common.security.plain.PlainSaslServerProvider
+
+NB! See TODOs and only working agains local ldap on 10389...