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Most applications do this by using a search, finding the valid user credentials and then binding as that specific user. Therefore the application doing the authentication needs to bind to the system first to do that search. | Most applications do this by using a search, finding the valid user credentials and then binding as that specific user. Therefore the application doing the authentication needs to bind to the system first to do that search. | ||
See [[LDAP Apache]] as a simple example | See [[LDAP Apache]] as a simple example |
Revision as of 15:50, 3 August 2006
LDAP Authentication
The easiest way to do LDAP authentication from a 3rd party application is to simply "bind" as the user intended.
Most applications do this by using a search, finding the valid user credentials and then binding as that specific user. Therefore the application doing the authentication needs to bind to the system first to do that search.
See LDAP Apache as a simple example