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It’s quite common to require LDAP (or Active Directory) authentication in WordPress when used in an enterprise context. However, there are very few well-maintained plugins to provide it. Whenever you find one, it’s either too rich in feature (overkill), or it’s lacking in the one thing you need, or worse, it stopped being maintained by the author several versions ago.
Since this is a very basic requirement for pretty much any enterprise site, why is this not already part of the built-in core? This has been a show-stopper to upgrades in the past because the next version wouldn’t work with the LDAP plugin we used and the whole site depends on this functionality. Seems like a core feature to me…
It doesn’t have to be complex:
1. Allow for authentication using the LDAP protocol
2. Allow mapping of WordPress roles to LDAP groups
3. Allow basic metadata sync between LDAP and WordPress user profiles