[pmwiki-users] Help with LDAP authenticaion

[Patrick R. Michaud]

I'll add a reference in the error message to appropriate
documentation on PmWiki, to avoid this confusion in the future.

Pm

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:16:54PM -0400, Hank Watson wrote:
>    So now the reference in authuser.php to the function 'ldap_connect' makes
>    sense - it's a PHP function.  I was trying to find it within the PMWiki
>    code.
>     
>    This will certainly advance the cause.
>     
>    Tx and ttfn
>    On 9/13/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:23:00AM -0400, Hank Watson wrote:
>      >    I've thrashed thru pounds of documentation and have been thoroughly
>      >    defeated.
>      >
>      >    I saw a recent posting with same question: how to use ldap for
>      >    authentication  and tried to implement the solution posted there.
>      >
>      >    But, when use a login prompt in my wiki, get the Abort error screen
>      and
>      >    message:
>      >
>      >    authuser: LDAP authentication requires ldap functions
> 
>      This error message means that the PHP software on the server wasn't
>      built with the ldap libraries included, thus PmWiki is unable to
>      access LDAP.
> 
>      You may need to see about getting a more up-to-date version of PHP,
>      or a version that includes the LDAP libraries.
> 
>      Hope this helps,
> 
>      Pm