Simulate an LDAP Server?

Question

For a number of reasons, I do not want to host an actual LDAP server.

Instead, through PHP, I want to simulate the essential functions of an LDAP server.

So I want, for instance, to be able to respond to ldap_search, ldap_connect, ldap_bind, ldap_unbind, etc.

Results would come from MySQL.

It looks like ldap_search would be a matter of returning the same response that an LDAP URL Query would return, which is like a JSON format, but I am unsure about e.g. ldap_bind.

Right now I am just researching the feasibility of providing a "simulated" LDAP Server. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on how much this would require, using PHP/MySQL.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think you'll have to go through the protocol specifications and basically build a server implementation. It will give you an idea what you need to do, an LDAP client app will follow the protocol specs very closely.

Specs: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4510