Re: LDAP bind option

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Stig Venaas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:59:41AM -0400, Jon Parise wrote: > > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:26:43PM -0400, Nathaniel David Gallaher wrote: > > > > > Currently the call to ldap_bind only supports the method LDAP_AUTH_SIMPLE > > > (as it is hardcoded in the php function definition). Can we put the > > > method parameter (as see in the call to ldap_bind_s) back into the PHP > > > function? I have an application that obtains x509 certs (securely) and I > > > want to use them to bind to the LDAP server. > > > > I'll try and have a look at this soon. I just need to find the time > > to get my local LDAP server up and running again for testing. > > There are also things like SASL that should be supported. That should > perhaps be done with a separate bind function though. > > It's great if you look into this, I have sort of had it on my todo list > for a couple of years... > > Stig > I worked on this for a couple of weeks and got a function written (just extracted the ldap_sasl_bind_s() and supporting bits from the ldapsearch program supplied with openldap) but I had one heck of a time getting all the neccessary libraries to work together. (I was using the GSI_GSSAPI mechanism which requires its own set of libs that are a little "special" and conflict with the normal libs) If anyone finds an easy soln, let me know. ~Nathan