[wp-hackers] LDAP - almost!

[Alex King]

A rewrite of the way the authentication works (using PHP sessions 
instead of the wp cookies for example) is probably not that big a job.

I'd be interested in helping on this if you'd like, I want to get some 
PHP/LDAP experience.

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


Alistair Young wrote:
> 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
>