How to use ldap in UserIdentity for authentication

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Yii does not have an LDAP class itself, but its very easy to implement LDAP in the stock UserIdentity class.

To do so, open your protected/components/UserIdentity.php and remove or comment out the code in the authenticate() method, before replacing it with this:

$options = Yii::app()->params['ldap'];
$dc_string = "dc=" . implode(",dc=",$options['dc']);
 
$connection = ldap_connect($options['host']);
ldap_set_option($connection, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);
ldap_set_option($connection, LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, 0);
 
if($connection)
{
    // Note: in general it is bad to hide errors, however we're checking for an error below
    $bind = @ldap_bind($connection, "uid={$this->username},ou={$options['ou']},{$dc_string}", $this->password);
 
    if(!$bind) $this->errorCode = self::ERROR_PASSWORD_INVALID;
    else $this->errorCode = self::ERROR_NONE;
}
return !$this->errorCode;

Once you have done this, open up your configs/main.php file, and add the following to the 'params' array at the bottom of the file:

'ldap' => array(
    'host' => 'hostname',
    'ou' => 'organisational-unit', // such as "people" or "users"
    'dc' => array('example','com'),
),

Replace the host with the hostname of the LDAP server, ou with the organisational unit you want to authenticate against (most LDAP servers use a broad terminology, such as "people"), and dc with the base DN. (For example array("ucla","edu") // ucla.edu)

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