[Plugin] LDAP Authentication Plugin

The SFM integration module converts SMF users to MODx users, you could look at that for some example code.

Hi,

Sorry for "waking up" this thread, but I would like to know, whether there is plans for LDAP support in the upcoming release?

I’m depending on the LDAP support, for choosing MODx running our organisation site, with about 8000 members already registred in a LDAP database.

Best regards

Søren

any news on this technology?

Nothing at all. Which is a shame.

I could use LDAP but wouldn’t know where to start, hence my post of some months ago at http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,27208.0.html.

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I wrote an LDAP authentication routine in PHP a long, long time ago. I don’t have it any more, but I wouldn’t think it would be that hard to do for MODx. The development needs to be done by someone with access to a LDAP system, though, which leaves me out.

I’ve been following this topic for about a year.. as with others, never really had the time to look into developing this properly although I’ve developed and tested various PHP LDAP routines for my environment, so I *would* be well placed to dive in and get something happening quickly. But like I said, time is an issue and unfortunately I don’t have enough of it right now to do this and do it right. And this might not even be an issue any more if "Revolution" will ship with an LDAP module (I’ve heard whispers, may be completely unfounded though).

I’ve had success with the PHP LDAP plugins from Drupal and WordPress, so if someone is after some "inspiration" to get going quickly, these might be a good place to start (I haven’t looked at licenses for those however but I assume all would be fine to borrow some code from those projects).

If someone can take the lead (set up a repository, work out the required plugin architecture and interoperability with the internals of MODx user auth for Evolution and Revolution) I’d be happy to contribute in my off time.. let me know.

LDAP won’t ship with Revo.

Okay great, thanks for clearing that up!

Hey Guys,

I’m yet another person looking for ldap support but with no time to code it (not anytime soon at least) if someone just wanted access to an ldap server to use as an reference implementation I could probably provide that sometime soon. Please feel free to post or pm me.

Hello MODx community,
I’ve been trying out various PHP frameworks with a list of criteria. LDAP/Active Directory is critical because we intend to use a huge existing Windows/AD account database for access to our PHP based content. Unfortunately, most frameworks/CMS are geared toward startup blog/forum sites with email registration ad hoc account creation.
We still need a RAD framework and plan to implement the LDAP/AD authentication into which ever framework we finally go with.

http://adldap.sourceforge.net/ has most of the bases covered on the LDAP/AD technical end.

MODx looks very promising and depending on how the rest of our testing goes I hope to get even more involved in the future.

Thanks,
Mike