Re: Authentificate against LDAP?

Thanks for your help. I'll have a look at the bakery.

There is no way not using AD as LDAP, so I need to find a way to get
AD working.

On 4 Nov., 13:11, hydra12 <hydr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some articles in the bakery about using ldap as a model.  I
> haven't used them, so I couldn't say how well they work.  I do know
> that ActiveDirectory is microsoft's version of ldap and doesn't always
> work quite the way you think it should.  Personally, I use adLdap
> (http://adldap.sourceforge.net/).  I drop it in the vendors folder,
> then create an instance of adldap in my users controller and do all my
> authentication there.  I've had good luck with it so far, but it's not
> 'cakey', so it might not be what you are looking for.
>
> I hope that helps.
> hydra12
>
> On Nov 4, 4:11 am, Sebastian Göttschkes <sebastian.goettsch...@mpx-
>
> e.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I started using cakePHP not long ago and it's really nice. It works
> > great for me and my time and effort building web apps has decreased.
> > Thank you for this!
>
> > Right now I got this problem: I need to authentificate not against a
> > database but against a LDAP (Active Directory).
>
> > In the database I got a table employees, containing all employees with
> > their login name (not the password) and other data. When a employee is
> > sending his login name and password, I want to authentificate him
> > against the LDAP. If the password is correct AND his dataset is found
> > in the table (using his login name), the login was correct and he can
> > use the application.
>
> > Is their an easy way to handle this task with cakePHP? I have searched
> > the docs but only found the "normal" authentification against a
> > database. This is not possible as there is no way for me to read the
> > password from the LDAP into the database. I read something about
> > models representing LDAP entries, but didn't found any information on
> > that.
>
> > I hope you guys can help me!
>
> > Regards,
> > Sebastian
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