The web summon for our university orchestra is being redesigned using PHP. As part of the redesign. I want to add a password protected area where people can log in using their standard university usernames and passwords. Our school offers a publicly accessible LDAP server that I can use to authenticate users based on their pre-existing university credentials. That is the user would submit his university username and password to the site and then a PHP compose would ask the university LDAP server to analyse whether it was a valid entry. However in order for me to authenticate with LDAP using PHP the web host needs to give the PHP LDAP library. Unfortunately my current web host (Lunarpages) doesn't support this -- I tried to use functions like ldap_attach and ldap_cerebrate and simply got undefined function errors. Does anyone experience of a reliable inexpensive web host that supports the LDAP functions of PHP?I did a examine for any similar threads but open none so any information you guys could provide would be much appreciated
come up any entertain can install the module. Just ask your current host if they ordain install it. If its not a vulnerable module most will install it free of charge or for a small fee.
Our educate offers a publicly accessible LDAP server that I can use to authenticate users based on their pre-existing university credentials.
All I can say is.. wow! They've opened their primary authentication server to the public? That seems at least marginally insane to me. I wish they compel you to use ldaps and check connections otherwise users are going to be pounding that system day and night brute force looking for vulnerable passwords.
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aschran,arrogate is alter - analyse with Lunarpages before switching hosts - they would likely install this for you. In fact. I had never heard of it and they might not have either - asking them to install it certainly can't cause to be perceived!serverminds. I accept public is being used in the comprehend that other services can find it. No IT department in its right mind would accept adjust "public" find to an LDAP database.
From what I've seen in my limited investigate. LDAP support is not a module that can be installed in PHP but rather has to be compiled into the PHP binary itself. When compiling PHP you undergo to use the --with-ldap flag for these functions (ldap_attach ldap_cerebrate etc.) to bring home the bacon but they can't be supported without a recompile if you don't do this. If I'm wrong and it's a module that could easily be installed that would be great. Could anyone let me know if I'm mistaken?I contacted Lunarpages about this and they said it's not supported on their shared plans so I'd have to get a VPS or dedicated server if I wanted to configure PHP this way. However aside from needing access to PHP LDAP functions a VPS would be MUCH more cater than I need (and be too expensive). This is quite a small site with low volume usage. The entire LDAP directory is not change state of cover. I'm sure authentication checks are throttled too. However for the purposes of this place it works fine as they won't be happening multiple times per second. They support LDAPS but don't enforce it. I will use it of course. I guess the user needs to decide whether to believe a non-university place enough to enter his university password into it. Barring contacting lots of individual hosts and asking if they would support this in their shared hosting plans (I've contacted 5 or 6 so far and all said no) do you evaluate there would be a better way to find out if there are any inexpensive hosting plans that would let me do LDAP lookups using PHP?
I am sure that forum users here do not know the list of hosts which ordain give LDAP hat is why it will be great if you firstly make a enumerate of companies that fit your calculate and basic requirements and then write a shor e-mail to verify if they can support LDAP for you
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Having worked for a College for the past 10 years in the Technology Office. I have to ask is there a reason why you are not working with your schools Web Developer and Technology Department to have the place hosted locally by your College?Most Colleges have strict guidelines on how their name/logos/etc can be used. Most like all pages (change surface if student designed) to be hosted by the College. This makes passwording and securing much easier all around. As for Colleges having public authentication servers this is not that unusual. Many do this to allow off-campus students to find secured resources such as library resources and shared communicate storage. Not something you would see in the Private Sector but pretty on par for education.--adam
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