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labels:
- 'Type-Auth'
summary: Another take on LDAP authentication
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Introduction
============

See [mod\_lib\_ldap](mod_lib_ldap.html) for more information.

Installation
============

You must install [mod\_lib\_ldap](mod_lib_ldap.html) to use this module.
After that, you need only copy mod\_auth\_ldap2.lua to your Prosody
installation's plugins directory.

Configuration
=============

In addition to the configuration that [mod\_lib\_ldap](mod_lib_ldap.html)
itself requires, this plugin also requires the following fields in the
ldap section:

-   user.filter
-   admin (optional)

See the README.html distributed with [mod\_lib\_ldap](mod_lib_ldap.html) for
details.