auth_ldap

Michael nginx at thismetalsky.org
Wed Aug 20 02:39:54 MSD 2008


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 23:52:13, Markus Teichmann said...

> here is another version. It supports an user for searching the required dn. 
> The config statements are auth_ldap_bind_dn and auth_ldap_bind_passwd.
> E.g.:
>
> http {
>     auth_ldap_uri "ldap://127.0.0.1";
>     auth_ldap_bind_dn "cn=Manager,dc=chaos,dc=jmt";
>     auth_ldap_bind_passwd "xxxxxxx";

Wouldn't it be better to do the bind as the user authenticating?  There's no
need to do the extra step of performing an administrator bind, then look up the
user in an additional operation.

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