I agree I dont need it but regardless I would like to LEARN more about it. And the question was directed to the author thank you.

Its one of them things, if you dont use it you dont need it as said above but....

Best example I can give is of my work..... we use LDAP to authenticate users accross different services we offer on campus - logging into computers, access programs, databases, and web sites. On the web for example our CMS, Blackboard, Campus Pipeline, Intranet and now VBulletin all authenticate against LDAP. This allows us to give out 1 username and password to every staff and student to access any service we offer; we can restrict access via LDAP as well.

There's a bit more to it than that. You've got to have someone to populate LDAP, or some program to automatically insert / update records i.e. our finance department enter a new staff member onto the pay roll system, and in an overnight job LDAP is synchronised with it, creating new usernames if neccessary or expire accounts if someone has left.

Its our "yellow pages" of staff and students. Benefit to us is 1 username and password to access all our services. Less maintenance. Also in time it will allow us to roll out "single sign on". Sign into a computer on the network, and then you are automatically logged into our web sites or Vbulletin when you go to that site. No need for cookies.

You may have heard of Active Directory which is similar.

Does that make sense? :s :)

Actually that makes PERFECT sense as to the definition of the acronym. thank you very much for answering. Now you will get ALLOT less questions

I notice that you are using mysql_num_rows() - you should update that to the equivelent vb database class call. :)

True!! Fixed , thanks for pointing that out :D

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Wow this is great news man. I was thinking of using vb at my work for our IT department for internal knowledgebase but refrained due to the whole seperate login issues but now that LDAP is supported this is very cool.

Thanks

thanks m8 will have a look at this :)

Let me know how you get on. ..... :)

I've updated the attachment so the download is now a product, not just a plugin. Did this so people can do version checking. Not edited any code.

Is there any possibility of attaching some screenshots?

Thanks

Nope, there's nothing to take a screen shot of. You login with the usual Vbulletin form. Script talks to the LDAP server in the background, then continues with the Vbulletin login code.