Question

I am currently working on a web application in node.js in which a user needs to log in to access the information. I want to check the user login and password with an external active directory server. I have tried using node-ldapauth, but I can’t get it work (I don’t know if it works for active directories, maybe just openLdap). Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I used an rubyldap library to solve the problem thanks!

Update: As requested this is the library I used to solve the problem https://github.com/ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap/

After installing the ruby library on your server, using gem install (look it up it’s not too hard)

 require 'rubygems'
  require 'net/ldap'

  ldap = Net::LDAP.new :host => server_ip_address,
       :port => 389,
       :auth => {
             :method => :simple,
             :username => "cn=manager, dc=example, dc=com",
             :password => "opensesame"
       }

  filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.eq("cn", "George*")
  treebase = "dc=example, dc=com"

  ldap.search(:base => treebase, :filter => filter) do |entry|
    puts "DN: #{entry.dn}"
    entry.each do |attribute, values|
      puts "   #{attribute}:"
      values.each do |value|
        puts "      --->#{value}"
      end
    end
  end

  p ldap.get_operation_result

Set up a ruby file as shown above.

You can run the ruby library by using

var ldap = 'ruby '+process.cwd()+'/src/ruby/ruby_file_name '+ user+' '+password;

To grab the user and password in ruby use ARGV[0] and ARGV1.
You can grab the ruby returned result in node.js by using a call back function

var result = exec(ldap, theCallBack);

in the theCallBack function you can grab the returned ruby library results by passing in stdout

ex:

function theCallBack(err,stdout) {
    ----your code here, stdout is what you PUT in the ruby library.

Hope this helps!