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rack-auth-ldap¶ ↑

Rack Middleware LDAP authentication

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2014 Romain GEORGES. See COPYRIGHT for details. Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Christian Neukirchen <purl.org/net/chneukirchen> for Rack Project

Presentation ¶ ↑

Rack::Auth::Ldap is a basic authentication module with LDAP support Rack::Auth::Ldap is heavily based on Rack:Auth::Basic from the Rack main Project by Christian Neukirchen

This is an additional module for Rack to authenticate users against an LDAP serveur

Usage ¶ ↑

Initialise¶ ↑

In you config.ru, simply add :

require 'rubygems'
require 'rack'
gem 'rack-auth-ldap'
require 'rack/auth/ldap'

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/your_app'

use Rack::Auth::Ldap
run Sinatra::Application

this configuration activate the Basic Authencation for the entire application

Configure¶ ↑

Create an ldap.yml configuration file with :

production: &ldap_defaults
  hostname: localhost
  basedn: ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=tld
  rootdn: cn=admin,dc=domain,dc=tld
  passdn: secret
  auth: true
  port: 389
  username_ldap_attribut: uid

test:
  <<: *ldap_defaults

development:
  <<: *ldap_defaults

if you want to deactivate root authentication before user binding :

production: &ldap_defaults
  hostname: localhost
  basedn: ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=tld
  auth: false
  port: 389
  username_ldap_attribut: uid

test:
  <<: *ldap_defaults

development:
  <<: *ldap_defaults