[ciapug] ldap

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Scott Phillips wrote:
> Has anyone here hooked a web-based authentication scheme to a remote 
> store of users via LDAP (specifically Active Directory)?  What, would 
> you say, is the easiest way to go about this?  PEAR's DB_LDAP? Or is 
> there something better?
> 

I just launched a project that used Active Directory to authenticate.  I 
used adLDAP http://adldap.sourceforge.net/

I used a system account to do the initial LDAP bind and subsequent 
lookups, then authenticated with the user's name and password from the 
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-barry