+1 to this as well. We use LDAP authentication with 2.0.40 on win32 already and would very welcome a "official" module for this
> Now that 2.0.40 has been released and we are in development of > .41 and the fact that there has been a proposal for re-architecting > the AUTH modules, I would like to propose that we move AUTH_LDAP > out of it's own project and into experimental. This will enable > AUTH_LDAP to get more exposure as an external module, allow it to > be included in future > releases of Apache 2 for testing and stabilization, and make sure > that it is not overlooked in future development. LDAP is an > important > authentication method and should be supported in Apache.