NAME
Apache::AuthPerLDAP - mod_perl PerLDAP Authentication Module
DESCRIPTION
AuthPerLDAP provides Basic Authentication, with
username/password lookups against an LDAP server, using
Netscape's PerLDAP kit.
It is heavily based on Clayton Donley's Apache::AuthLDAP
module, but uses the newer Netscape PerLDAP (Mozilla::LDAP),
which in turn uses the Netscape Directory SDK for C. Thus
Donley's original Net::LDAPapi module and library is no
longer required.
It requires mod_perl and PerLDAP (v1.2 or later). Building
mod_perl with:
perl Makefile.PL PERL_AUTHEN=1 PERL_STACKED_HANDLERS=1
PERL_GET_SET_HANDLERS
works for me. If this module is the only Apache/Perl module
you are going to use, you probably don't need anything but
the PERL_AUTHEN hook enabled.
Unlike Donley's Apache::AuthLDAP module, AuthPerLDAP is only
used for authentication, and thus only supports the
require-user directive. If a user enters the correct
username and password, the authentication is considered to
be OK.
CREDITS
Apache::AuthPerLDAP is greatly inspired by the original
Apache::AuthLDAP written by Clayton Donley.
Adoption to PerLDAP was done by reading the PerLDAP source
and documentation provided by Netscape Corp. and Leif
Hedstrom, found at www.perldap.org.
The new book published by O'Reilly & Associates, and
authored by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern helped clarify
many mod_perl issues I previously had problems with:
"Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C" (www.modperl.com).
Andreas K. Sorensen provided usefull Perl wisdom during
debugging.
AUTHOR
Henrik Strom <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1999 Henrik Strom
