From: "Eduardo Yáñez Parareda" <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@...>
Date: 2006-12-14T01:45:04+09:00
Subject: Net::Ldap question

Hello, I'm trying this plugin in a rails app and think I need some help.
What I want to do is authenticate some user, I don't need to do any queries or
search in LDAP. I have this method:

     def self.initialize_ldap_con(identifier, password)
       hsh = {:host => AppConfig.ldap_server_host, :port => AppConfig.ldap_server_port}
       hsh[:base] = AppConfig.ldap_server_tree_base
       hsh[:auth] = { :method => :simple, :username => identifier, :password => password }
       Net::LDAP.new( hsh )
     end

And get this object as result:

#<Net::LDAP:0xb77a72c4 @auth={:username=>"eduardo", :password=>"********", :method=>:simple}, @host="ldapserver", 
@encryption=nil, @port=389, @base="ou=company,c=es", @verbose=false, @open_connection=nil>

What does mean :method? Which methods could I choose?
What does mean @open_conection=nil? Does it mean that connection is not open?
How could I set an encryption method (I guess I could with :method option)?