LDAP Authentication module for nginx

LDAP module for nginx which supports authentication against multiple LDAP servers.

#Warning This module blocks whole nginx worker while communicating with ldap servers, so it can easily make "bad apache" out of your awesome nginx. But is might be useful if you don't have apache in your stack and don't want to add it, but need ldap auth on separate host (say backoffice or admin panel).

So use carefully and consider the drawbacks.

How to install

FreeBSD

cd /usr/ports/www/nginx && make config install clean

Check HTTP_AUTH_LDAP options

[*] HTTP_AUTH_LDAP        3rd party http_auth_ldap module

Linux

cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/kvspb/nginx-auth-ldap.git

in nginx source folder

./configure --add-module=path_to_http_auth_ldap_module
make install

Example configuration

Define list of your LDAP servers with required user/group requirements:

    ldap_server test1 {
      url ldap://192.168.0.1:3268/DC=test,DC=local?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=person);
      binddn "TEST\\LDAPUSER";
      binddn_passwd LDAPPASSWORD;
      group_attribute uniquemember;
      group_attribute_is_dn on;
      require user_valid;
    }

    ldap_server test2 {
      url ldap://192.168.0.2:3268/DC=test,DC=local?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=person);
      binddn "TEST\\LDAPUSER";
      binddn_passwd LDAPPASSWORD;
      group_attribute uniquemember;
      group_attribute_is_dn on;
      require user_valid;
    }

And add required servers in correct order into your location/server directive:

    server {
        listen       8000;
        server_name  localhost;

        auth_ldap "Forbidden";
        auth_ldap_servers test1;
		auth_ldap_servers test2;

        location / {
            root   html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

}

Known issues/improvement ideas