LDAP user authentication?

[prassaschr]

Hi. Is it possible to guide me so I can use our OpenLDAP. I have our users in there and I would like to use it to authenticate.

In the LDAP I have attributes like username, email, password, user_kind (student, faculty, etc).... Can I use those attributes to login and view specific web pages?

I want to create a student's informattion system but my main difficult is the authentication method. Thank you

[silverark]

It's a big question. If you're still interested then I've done this before. There is a lot to consider; if you have never authenticated to LDAP through PHP before then you need to know it's not a simple procedure. It also depends on whether you want to sync users when connecting (preferred) or just provide a system that authenticates for some pages, but doesn't do much else.

[prassaschr]

Are there any thoughts about CAS support? I think that the easiest might be to have a CAS system control the authentication and authorization and the main application should be a Bonfire job... I will try this as soon as I have some free time. Thanks