[Cialug] Linux/Apache and Active Directory

[James Shoemaker]

Mathew R. Phillips wrote:
> I'm developing some small php applications for an intranet at a local
> business. They are a windows shop but not opposed to using open
> source for the intranet. However, they want users to be authenticated
> by their group membership in active directory (management to the
> management pages) and so on. I've done quite a bit of research on it
> and how unix can authenticate with Active directory but nothing that
> really fits what I need has appeared to me. I've seen some things
> that use an IIS server as a sort of proxy to authenticate the users
> and send information back to the apache server but I was hoping to do
> it all within the linux box. Does anyone have any suggestions or
> experience with doing this sort of thing?

   I just finished hacking a php application to authenticate against 
active directory and secure permissions by group membership through 
LDAP, its pretty easy once you get by the funky AD schema.

   Just use the standard php LDAP calls, it's like querying a database 
through a clunky interface.

James