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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I've been using CakePHP for a while now and I've been thinking for a while it was time to see if I could give something back. As an IT leader I'm in love with LDAP. It makes life so simple for me and my team. The big downside to LDAP is it's not very easy to learn how all the objectClasses and attributes work with various applications. Microsoft has eliminated this with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). It amazes me that no open source project has developed a tools such as this before. ...

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