Just found it in the manual 
<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/09/access-control#Manual-Authentication>.
 
It's done with:

user = auth.login_bare(username, password)

or in my case:

login_is_valid = bool(auth.login_bare(username, password))


On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 5:40:59 PM UTC-5, Antonio Salazar wrote:
>
> I have a working application which does LDAP authentication exclusively. 
> I'm adding a a web service that generates an access token if the user and 
> password passed to it by JSON are valid.
>
> I'm not sure about how to validate the account against LDAP inside the web 
> service, but I'd really like to reuse the parent app configuration.
>

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