Hi Monks,

A script I'm working on needs to authenticate users using LDAP. Previously we had the script sitting behind an Apache .htaccess file, but now I'm having to write my own authentication routine. Since I know nothing about LDAP, can anyone tell me how I can authenticate a given username/password against the LDAP server? Specifically what modules and methods I should use? My old .htaccess file looks like this:

AuthLDAPURL
ldap://ldapserver.mydomain.com:389/ou=type,ou=members,ou=people,o=mydo
+main.com?uid?one?
AuthName Authorization
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require user myuserid
</Limit>

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In reply to Authenticating with LDAP by Anonymous Monk

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