I don't think this will work.   Why do you need to MD5 the passwd if you 
sending it over LDAPS:?? (LDAP over SSL)?????

Thanks.
Saqib Ali
http://validate.sf.net

Steven Hildreth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/30/2004 06:33:32 PM:

> Hi, Attempting to connect to an OpenLDAP server to authenticate a
> user, just want to see if the password the user passes is the stored
> password if true. I can get the LDAP connection to connect to the
> server, but unless I switch the LDAP server to use only clear I
> continually get a 'Invalid Credentials' error (passwords dont match).
> I am using LDAP MD5 to hash passwords on the server. If I take and
> echo out the password the routine below is using and compare it to the
> password on the server they match exactly?! Even if I include "{MD5}"
> at the front it still always gives me "Invalid Credentials".
> 
> Here is an example of the code I am using to check the password:
> 
> function CheckPassword($username,$password){
>   $dn = "uid=" . $username . ",ou=People,dc=<domain>,dc=net";
>   $pw = trim(base64_encode(pack("H*",md5($password))));
> 
>   $ldapconn = ldap_connect("ldaps://<server_address>/") or die("Could
> not connect to LDAP server!");
> 
>   if ($ldapconn) {
>           $ldapbind = ldap_bind($ldapconn,$dn,$pw);
>           if ($ldapbind) {
>                   return true;
>           }
>   }
> }
> 
> I am using OpenLDAP v2.1.30 and PHP 4.3.8, for what its worth I am
> using Gentoo and my make flags include "ldap".
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> Regards,
> Steven
> 
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