Add LDAP as authentication backend

[nitnelave]

Hello,

It would be great to have a possibility to re-use an existing LDAP backend for users. It shouldn't be too hard with django, hopefully.

Thanks,

[cdubz]

There is a django-auth-ldap/django-auth-ldap plugin that would support this -- it looks well maintained but requires quite a bit of config. I don't have an LDAP server to test with but I'd be happy to consider a PR for this. Theoretically one could also just install the package on an existing BabyBuddy deployment and then configure it per their documentation.

[nitnelave]

I could have a look, but I'm not familiar with Django. From the plugin's page, I need to add some configuration (in python), but I'm not sure where to add it. Babybuddy doesn't seem to have a settings.py or equivalent.

[nitnelave]

Ah, I found it in babybuddy/settings/base.py. I'll have a look, and might also add authentication via REMOTE_USER header as well.

[cdubz]

We have support for REMOTE_USER now via REVERSE_PROXY_AUTH so I think this use case is covered well enough.