[wp-hackers] LDAP - almost!

[Alistair Young]

I've enabled 1.2.1 to use LDAP authentication but am having some 
serious problems with cookies. It seems that login is a continous 
process throughout wordpress, not just a one-off authentication. The 
username and md5 password are stored in a cookie which is used by the 
other pages.
The md5 is useless for LDAP and there's no way to get access to what 
the user actually typed in when "logging in" (wp-login.php).
Has anyone looked at LDAP authentication - I can't see any way to get 
it working without a major rewrite of how the login works!
ta,
Alistair