Propagate authenticated LDAP credentials to Kafka Connect

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Discussed in #1407

^{Originally posted by ritambanik March 10, 2023}
Hello,

I want to configure access to Connect clusters from AKHQ. Below is what I have configured,

connections:

   xyz-kafka-dev:
       connect:
           - name: "kafka-connect-dev-kc-1"
              url: "http:/kafka-connect-dev-1.xyz-corp.cloud:8083"
              basic-auth-username: "user1"
              basic-auth-password: "password"

But my Kafka Connect cluster is RBAC enabled and I would like to pass the authenticated LDAP credentials (used to login to AKHQ) to Kafka Connect instead of the above hardcoded credentials. This way each user can have it's own view of the connectors list.

Please let me know how can I achieve this?

Thanks!