auth (
        ldap_host,
        ldap_basedn,
        username,
        password,
        )

internal function to do the hard work

authFunction ( passInfo )

authorize a client

authInit ( parent,  doc )

initialize ourselves on server start

cleanup ( self )

the cleanup process for the admin state data

findAttribute (
        attributes,
        key,
        default=None,
        )

helper function to see if an xml attribute list has a certain key. accepts a default incase it doesn't exist, otherwise it raises an authorizeError