Re: [phpldapadmin] Fwd: [ phpldapadmin-Feature Requests-2073323 ] Using Single Sign On authentication

"Clément OUDOT" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ldap.davedap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/12/13 Deon George <[email protected]>:
> Clement,
>
> Im not sure I understand this process - how is this differnet to HTTP
> basic authentication?
>
> IE: When HTTP basic authentication is used, the webserver/browser
> authenticate, and once they have done that, PLA picks up the user
> name/dn from the PHP_AUTH_USER variable, and the password from
> PHP_AUTH_PW variable - and uses that for all subsequent LDAP operations.
>
> Do you have a sample PHP implementation that I can take a look at?

The difference is that we do not use a password, only the user id is
sent, and then all operations are done with the managerwith a "sudo"
user, that is called the authzproxy.

I've no php sample code, i will try to find some.

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