How do I provide basic authentication?

[quintellarosa]

I've been away from programming for 10 years and now I want to build some applications again. I'm really interested in Qt and have just started learning.

Right now, I need a way of authenticate my users. Personally, I'd prefer to authenticate against an Active Directory, but I couldn't find anything related.

1. What class should I use for authentication? QAuthenticator? Any tutorial available?
2. Is there a way to authenticate against an LDAP server? Preferably AD.
3. Is there something "out-of-the-box"?
4. Shall I develop my own authentication system?

Any comments appreciated.

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[andre]

AFAIK, there is no standard component to do this. We've written our own code to query the AD server for user credentials.

[quintellarosa]

Thank you, Andre!

Would you mind giving me some directions on how to query the AD? Just a North.