passport-ldapauth

Passport authentication strategy against LDAP server. This module is a Passport strategy wrapper for ldapauth-fork

Usage

var LdapStrategy = require('passport-ldapauth').Strategy;
 
passport.use(new LdapStrategy({
    server: {
      url: 'ldap://localhost:389',
      ...
    }
  }));

If you wish to e.g. do some additional verification or initialize user data to local database you may supply a verify callback which accepts user object and then calls the done callback supplying a user, which should be set to false if user is not allowed to authenticate. If an exception occured, err should be set.

var LdapStrategy = require('passport-ldapauth').Strategy;
 
passport.use(new LdapStrategy({
    server: {
      url: 'ldap://localhost:389',
      ...
    }
  },
  function(user, done) {
    ...
    return done(null, user);
  }
));

Install

npm install passport-ldapauth

Status

Configuration options

• server: LDAP settings. These are passed directly to ldapauth-fork. See its documentation for all available options.

  • url: e.g. ldap://localhost:389
  • adminDn: e.g. cn='root'
  • adminPassword: Password for adminDn
  • searchBase: e.g. o=users,o=example.com
  • searchFilter: LDAP search filter, e.g. (uid={{username}}). Use literal {{username}} to have the given username used in the search.
  • searchAttributes: Optional array of attributes to fetch from LDAP server, e.g. ['displayName', 'mail']. Defaults to undefined, i.e. fetch all attributes
  • tlsOptions: Optional object with options accepted by Node.js tls module.

• usernameField: Field name where the username is found, defaults to username

• passwordField: Field name where the password is found, defaults to password

• passReqToCallback: When true, req is the first argument to the verify callback (default: false):

    passport.use(new LdapStrategy(..., function(req, user, done) {
        ...
        done(null, user);
      }
    ));
  

Express example

var express      = require('express'),
    passport     = require('passport'),
    LdapStrategy = require('passport-ldapauth').Strategy;
 
var OPTS = {
  server: {
    url: 'ldap://localhost:389',
    adminDn: 'cn=root',
    adminPassword: 'secret',
    searchBase: 'ou=passport-ldapauth',
    searchFilter: '(uid={{username}})'
  }
};
 
var app = express();
 
passport.use(new LdapStrategy(OPTS));
 
app.configure(function() {
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(passport.initialize());
});
 
app.post('/login', passport.authenticate('ldapauth', {session: false}), function(req, res) {
  res.send({status: 'ok'});
});
 
app.listen(8080);

Active Directory over SSL example

Simple example config for connecting over ldaps:// to a server requiring some internal CA certificate (often the case in corporations using Windows AD).

var fs = require('fs');
 
var opts = {
  server: {
    url: 'ldaps://ad.corporate.com:636',
    adminDn: 'non-person@corporate.com',
    adminPassword: 'secret',
    searchBase: 'dc=corp,dc=corporate,dc=com',
    searchFilter: '(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(|(samaccountname={{username}})(mail={{username}})))',
    searchAttributes: ['displayName', 'mail'],
    tlsOptions: {
      ca: [
        fs.readFileSync('/path/to/root_ca_cert.crt')
      ]
    }
  }
};
...

Asynchronous configuration retrieval

Instead of providing a static configuration object, you can pass to the LdapStrategy a function that will take care of fetching the configuration.

Example (here process.nextTick illustrates the asynchronous workings; in a real world this will for example be a database query):

function getLDAPConfiguration(callback) {
  process.nextTick(function() {
    var opts = {
      server: {
        url: 'ldap://localhost:389',
        adminDn: 'cn=root',
        adminPassword: 'secret',
        searchBase: 'ou=passport-ldapauth',
        searchFilter: '(uid={{username}})'
      }
    };
    callback(null, opts);
  });
}
 
var LdapStrategy = require('passport-ldapauth').Strategy;
 
passport.use(new LdapStrategy(getLDAPConfiguration,
  function(user, done) {
    ...
    return done(null, user);
  }
));

License

MIT