[OpenSER-Users] LDAP authentication tutorial

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Thank you Cristian,

hope that the page will get soon to a step by step tutorial (including 
quick guidelines of how to install ldap server, ldap libraries; how to 
add data on ldap )command line tools, gui, ..).

Cheers,
Daniel


On 07/27/07 20:53, Christian Schlatter wrote:
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> ...
>> there is an auth_ldap on the tracker, but I think doesn't make sense 
>> to add it as the auth module can perform authentication taking the 
>> username and password from pseudo-variables (including AVP). So, the 
>> same functionality is achieved by loading username and password in 
>> AVPs using the ldap module, and perform authentication via auth module.
>>
>> The ldap module has a lot of good stuff related to connection to 
>> server, failover, etc., and should be preferred to be used. I tried 
>> to start a tutorial about LDAP auth with OpenSER, should give you 
>> some hints to begin, contributions there are welcome.
>
> I added some content to the existing LDAP auth tutorial, have a look 
> at http://openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/tutorials:openser-auth-ldap.
>
> I also tested the script example included in the tutorial and it 
> worked fine for me. The new pv_xxx_authorize functions are really handy.
>
>
> cheers,
> Christian
>
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