Daniel M. wrote:
Lets say you were going to write a web application
using Perl and wanted to authenticate your users
agains the LDAP directory. Would you use a
posixAccount entry to verify their credentials?
I think it's OT 'cause it's an ldap question. Not perl-ldap one.
in fact, your web app. can relies to the ldap authentification.
You need something like this in your slapd.conf :
access to attrs=userPassword
by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write
by anonymous auth
by self write
by * none
"by anonymous auth" is important.
now, you just have to
- bind as anonymous to find your user's dn
- bind again with the dn and his password
if the second bind success, so your auth success.
regards
mc
