Using external LDAP to create a web server

Hello everyone, I am working on a project for the university I work for. We have an iPlanet LDAP server that contains the identities of everyone (faculty, staff, students). I have set up an experimental OS X server that we'd like to play with; in particular, we'd like to use it as a web server for faculty, etc. I am trying to collect as much information as possible on this topic. I'm learning a lot about Open Directory on the web.
I would like to know if it's possible to use the OS X server to query the iPlanet LDAP directory to authenticate users' identities and give them web space automatically on the OS X server? Or will we have to perform extracts of data from LDAP and manually synch with the OS X server?
(We also have an AD environment, but we'll skip that for now because the students aren't in AD... yet.)
Thanks for any insight.
MacBook 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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