Check this out :) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:37, Bryan Boone <v_1bb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. I am a noob to LDAP and I have a question. > > I am on a team that is building a special server. This server will be > running linux with an apache web server with PHP and apache is running a > special website that we designed. > > I need to have the website be able to query LDAP servers for web > authentication. So when a user connects to this special web server, they > are prompted for a user name and password. Then I want to have the website > check the LDAP server to make sure that the user is indeed a user of the > website on our special server. So in a sense our special server will be an > LDAP client. > > So my question is??? Is an LDAP client to be run as a Daemon or service? > Is this what OpenLDAP provides? Or can I simply use function calls (from > PHP or C) from the OpenLDAP library for the authentication? > > Basically all I need is... > > The user brings up the web page. > The user enters in the user name and password. > The server uses PHP or C to check to see if the entered information matches > an LDAP server. > The web grants or denies access. > The LDAP server connection is closed. > > No other actions or information from the LDAP server is needed. > > Do I have the right idea? > > thanks > > -- To be or not to be -- Shakespeare | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Do be do be do -- Sinatra
