[dev] Proposed patch for passwd nonanonymous ldap-search

[Amith Varghese]

Quoting Timo Boettcher <spida at gmx.net>:

> Hi,
>
>   I have just written my first patch for a horde module :-)
>   It enables the passwd module to authenticate with ldap for the case
>   that anonymous searching in the ldap-db is not allowed, and takes
>   the same username (dn of the user) and password parameters as the
>   other passwd-backends. The patch is against HEAD of tuesday.
>   I hope I haven't duplicated work that has been done before, or
>   otherwise done stupid things.
>
>  Timo Boettcher


Timo:

Unfortunately this is already included in HEAD.  See the configuration 
page for
passwd

*If we are using the LDAP driver, use a custom hook to provide a userdn for
binding, instead of binding anonymously

Amith