[OpenSER-Users] LDAP authentication tutorial

[Christian Schlatter]

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