[Slashcode-development] Problems with authentication

[Scott J. <sc...@na...>]

I'm trying to work up an LDAP authentication system. Instead of trying 
to tear out the existing system, my strategy is to work with what's 
already there. See 
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/12/1640251&mode=thread for an 
overview of what I'm trying for.

I've got the widget that verifies the username & password against the 
LDAP directory; now I want to figure out how to call the slash widgets 
that perform the same function there. Here's how I'm trying to do it:

$userInfo = Slash::Apache::User->userLogin($providedName, 
$providedPassword);

but all I get returned is the anon-coward UID, which, when I read the 
code, seems to be what you are supposed to get when userLogin can't log 
in using what you provide. This happens even if I set the two variables 
to known-good values. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I'm about as green a newbie 
as they get, so apologies in advance if this doesn't make any sense at 
all or if I haven't provided enough info.