Authenticating with LDAP

LDAP is essentially an internet protocol for looking up contact information about users, certificates, network pointers, and more from a server where the data is stored in a directory-style structure. Of LDAP's multiple use cases, the most popular is the single sign-on functionality, where a user can access multiple services by logging in to just one, as the credentials are shared across the system.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will create a login page similar to the one we created in the first recipe of this chapter, Creating a simple session-based authentication. The user can log in using their LDAP credentials. If the credentials are successfully authenticated on the provided LDAP server...