I am using Inspircd 2.0 with LDAP authentication module, so everybody who logged in have a "validated" username field.
I have found that Anope has an LDAP authentication module as well, but it seems that the user needs to manually authenticate to Services once he logs into the IRC server.
Is it possible to re-use the auth provided to the IRC server for Anope? Or grant privileges just by the username (not nick) without the person identifying manually?