[Koha] Koha 2.2.9 (win32) -- cookies and authentication

[Scott Owen]

Hi all,

First: Please forgive my ignorance.....I'm not a programmer....and I may 
be biting off more than I can chew ......

Is there a (easy) way to pass authentication information to Koha ?? 
Or.....a way to have/make Koha generate a session cookie based on 
external information? Or maybe change the way cookies are generated/issued?

I've been trying to figure out a way for my users (k-12 students) to use 
the same login/password in Koha as they do everywhere else.
We use Novell NDS/LDAP as our main authentication mechanism.

I have a basic PHP/Perl login script ( 
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/14122.html) that can return 
basic information like:
******************************
Bind result is: 1
1 entries returned
Login Successful - Welcome Test Student
Here you could add sessions or cookies to verify the person has logged 
in with the corect UserName and Password.

*Title:* 	
*Sur Name:* 	Student
*Given Name:* 	Test
*E-Mail:* 	


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I have tried using the Auth_With_ldap.pm but have been unable to get it 
to work  :-(  and decided to try this approach instead.

Thanks for any help.

-Scott Owen