Ldap Apache IIS ASP passwords

[webfuture]

Hi all,

This is all quite new to me...

Here's what I need:
1. Authenticate user on the web to an ldap server.
2. A solution to work with apache on windows or IIS
3. Need to work with encrypted password on the ldap server side.

Here's what I did (working or not!!!):
1. I installed openldap on redhat9
Seems to work fine, added a user with encrypted password
Can browse the tree with this ldap client

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap

2. Tried from the IIS ASP side to talk to the ldap
We can talk to it fine
3. Tried to verify the password of a client with ASP.
This is not working.
The problem seems to be with the encrypted password?
4. I looked on the apache auth_ldap module, but it's experimental! I would need to recompile everything!!!
5. Looked at PHP Ldap stuff, but the compare method does not work with encrypted password!

Questions:
1. What are people doing to authenticate user on the web with an ldap server?
2. Am I missing something?
3. Is there someone who manage to do this with apache and ldap?

Any pointers, Help would be appreciated

Thanks,

Webfuture

 

[cdeardor]

Wouldn't it be better to just run your ldap over ssl instead of trying to do the encryption on the server? Are you using SHA encryption?