Fedora Core 6 & mod_ntlm

[Joshua Miller]

Thank you for your response, Lord of Gore.

While configuring Apache to authenticate against an LDAP data store 
would be a great thing, the link you provide details how to configure 
Apache to authenticate using mod_auth_ldap as an authentication 
mechanism.  The problem with this authentication module is that the user 
must enter their authentication credentials when they visit the site 
instead of having their browser present the login credentials and have 
the Apache server accept those credentials and log them in without user 
intervention.  The benefit to using mod_ntlm is that the user does not 
have to enter their login credentials -- similar to the benefit you 
would get from using IIS.

LDAP is a great directory store, implemented in Active Directory and 
other sources but it is not an authentication mechanism.  I believe that 
this user is already attempting to authentication against an LDAP store, 
most likely Active Directory.

Thank you,
Josh, RHCE

Lord of Gore wrote:
> Joshua Miller wrote:
>> How would LDAP solve this problem?  LDAP is a data store, while 
>> mod_ntlm is an authentication module...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh, RHCE
>>
>> Lord of Gore wrote:
>>> Stephen Gilbert wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to replace our company's IIS server with Apache on 
>>>> Linux.  There
>>>> is one feature that my users tell me they simply have to have, and 
>>>> that is
>>>> single-sign-on authentication of web apps.  I've looked around and 
>>>> find this
>>>> is accomplished with Apache using winbind and mod_ntlm.  I've got 
>>>> winbind
>>>> working, no problem.  I can authenticate users on my linux box with 
>>>> our PDC,
>>>> however I'm having problems getting mod_ntlm to compile. 
>>> What about trying ldap?
>>>
>>
> By using ladp authentication... :) A quick search on google gave me this 
> link:
> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialApacheAddingLoginSiteProtection.html#LDAP 
> 
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