So I was looking for a way to authenticate against LDAP with cake but I've found that it doesn't support it by default. I found one that checks the auth against ldap then creates a local mysql account. This also didn't use a actual ldap data sourc e either, it just handeled it's own ldap connection. After I read through the standard cakphp auth component I saw that it wouldn't be that hard to write an LDAP based auth component. First you need to download this file ldap_auth.php to your 'app/controllers/components/' directory. Then just like the original auth...

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