Hey Anyone been doing or researching this kind of mod / feature?
Wouldnt be too hard to do if I just could write even a line of php code
Moodle atleast can do it, and it is opensource, so it might be worthy of checking it out.
Also there is a lot of php + ldap featured topics in internet.
If someone is doing or starts doing this kind of mod, I'm willing to provide insight about LDAP (and Active Directory) and how it works.
It could be done for only staff authentication or it could be build in to both, staff authentication and open.php as 2 new fields.
Generally the mod would need to be able:
1. Connect LDAP (or AD), via straigth connect or via bind
2. Search the username (uid or sAMAccountName)
3. Check if the password matches
4. Authorize the person from LDAP and maybe look up his name etc (givenName, sn, mail, l etc)
5. Check some group membership (in apache ldap-require-group) Also it is possible to be done by search criteria memberOF=CN=group,OU=orunit,DC=domain,DC=org