LDAP Authentication

I am trying to setup LDAP auth to my win2k exchange sever and I am not too sure what bind function is for,

 

 

    // Hostname of your LDAP server

    $auth_ldap_server = "dc1";

 

    // Password to query the LDAP server (this is NOT the same

    // as the password of the user being authenticated!).

    $auth_ldap_password = "password";

 

    // Authentication query for users domain.tld

    // Leave the "%%USER%%" placeholder in the query--this will be replaced

    // by the username when the query is executed.

    $auth_ldap_query = "(|(mailLocalAddress=%%USER%%)(mailLocalAddress=%%USER%%domain.tld))";

 

    // Company name, domain name, and top-level domain

    // e.g. "cn=acme, dc=example, dc=com"

    $auth_ldap_bind_dn = "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=stamant,DC=mb,DC=ca";

 

    // Domain and top-level domain, e.g. example.com => "dc=example, dc=com"

    $auth_ldap_base_dn = "DC=domain,DC=stamant,DC=mb,DC=ca";;

 

    // Attribute string that describes the name of the LDAP field that will

    // return the user's e-mail address.

    $auth_ldap_attribute = "mail";

 

    // Set your ldap version (default is 2)

    $auth_ldap_version = 2;

 

The staff that I want to authenticate is in a container called staff. (CN=staff,DC=domain,DC=stamant,DC=mb,DC=ca)

 

Also what is the purpose of $auth_ldap_password, I have done an ldap connection before but I needed to provide a user / password to connect to the ldap server, I assume that’;s what it’s for but there is no username to go with it?

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Dan