couchdb-ldap-auth/README.md

LDAP Authentication Handler for CouchDB

Features

• Basic authentication handler
• Session handler
  • works with CouchDB built-in cookie_authentication_handler
• Supports users and recursive-group association

Installation

First, check out the source and cd into it.

Prerequisites

• Erlang
• Rebar

Build from Source

rebar clean compile

Run Tests

rebar test

Install binaries and config

# Create module folder
mkdir /usr/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/ldap-auth
# Copy binaries
cp -R ebin /usr/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/ldap-auth/

# Copy/overwrite the default config
cp -f priv/default.d/* /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.d/

# Copy (but don't overwrite!) the custom config
cp -n priv/local.d/* /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.d/

Configuration

See ldap_auth.ini for details.