Lighttpd

Doing ldap_search_s() on my LDAP server requires bind-dn/bind-pw as root.
Exposing root's password in the 05-auth.conf can be dangerous. Apache2 seems to bind as the user to authenticate instead.
For lighttpd 1.4, Is there a workaround ?
Thanks.

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/* 2. */
if (p->anon_conf->ldap == NULL ||
LDAP_SUCCESS != (ret = ldap_search_s(p->anon_conf->ldap, p->conf.auth_ldap_basedn->ptr, LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE, p->ldap_filter->ptr, attrs, 0, &lm))) {

/* try again; the ldap library sometimes fails for the first call but reconnects */
            if (p->anon_conf->ldap == NULL || ret != LDAP_SERVER_DOWN ||
                LDAP_SUCCESS != (ret = ldap_search_s(p->anon_conf->ldap, p->conf.auth_ldap_basedn->ptr, LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE, p->ldap_filter->ptr, attrs, 0, &lm))) {

if (auth_ldap_init(srv, p->anon_conf) != HANDLER_GO_ON)
                    return -1;

if (NULL == p->anon_conf->ldap) return -1;

if (LDAP_SUCCESS != (ret = ldap_search_s(p->anon_conf->ldap, p->conf.auth_ldap_basedn->ptr, LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE, p->ldap_filter->ptr, attrs, 0, &lm))) {
                    log_error_write(srv, FILE, LINE, "sssb",
                            "ldap:", ldap_err2string(ret), "filter:", p->ldap_filter);
                    return -1;
                }
            }
        }@