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Ruby on Rails HTTP Basic Auth with LDAP

// December 8th, 2008 // 8 Comments » // Blog

My friend Fred has a nifty tip over on his Binary Fever blog about Ruby on Rails LDAP authentication using HTTP Basic Auth. I took what he had done and made a few minor improvements:


# mygeneric_controller.rb
LDAPBASE = ‘, ou=active, ou=employees, ou=people, o=host.com’
before_filter :authenticate

protected

def authenticate
  authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic('LDAP Login') do |username, password|
   ldap = Net::LDAP.new :host => ‘ldap.host.com’, :base => LDAPBASE
   ldap.auth ‘uid=’ + username + LDAPBASE, password
   if ldap.bind
    @point_person = PointPerson.find_by_username(username)
    if !@point_person.nil?
     return true
    end
   else
    return false
   end
  end
 end