diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7f4d04cd..d22353cc 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FROM python:3.9
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libgraphviz-dev graphviz pandoc
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libsasl2-dev libgraphviz-dev graphviz pandoc
 
 COPY requirements.txt /kelvin/requirements.txt
 RUN pip install -r /kelvin/requirements.txt
diff --git a/common/utils.py b/common/utils.py
index 2032351a..d2f7567a 100644
--- a/common/utils.py
+++ b/common/utils.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import re
 from functools import lru_cache
 
-LDAP_CONNECTION = None
 
 @lru_cache()
 def is_teacher(user):
diff --git a/kelvin/settings.py b/kelvin/settings.py
index 701608e3..18c8da41 100644
--- a/kelvin/settings.py
+++ b/kelvin/settings.py
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@
     'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
     'api.backends.TokenBackend',
     'django_cas_ng.backends.CASBackend',
-    'web.vsbldapbackend.MyLDAPBackend'
 ]
 
 DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE = 100 * 1024 * 1024
diff --git a/kelvin/urls.py b/kelvin/urls.py
index 6fa3d1ba..44ae1d1a 100644
--- a/kelvin/urls.py
+++ b/kelvin/urls.py
@@ -24,14 +24,12 @@
     from django_cas_ng import views as auth_views
 else:
     from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
-from django.contrib.auth.views import LoginView as LDAPLoginView
 
 urlpatterns = [
     path('', include('web.urls')),
     path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
     path('accounts/logout/', auth_views.LogoutView.as_view(), name='cas_ng_logout'),
     path('accounts/login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(), name='cas_ng_login'),
-    path('accounts/login/ldap', LDAPLoginView.as_view()),
     path('api/', include('api.urls')),
     path('django-rq/', include('django_rq.urls')),
     path('survey/', include('survey.urls')),
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2a966f52..d0ebfa2c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ pandas==1.5.3
 psycopg2
 pygraphviz==1.7
 pyserde==0.12.2
-python-ldap==3.4.0
 python-magic==0.4.27
 pyyaml==5.4
 readwise-django-rq-scheduler==1.2.1
diff --git a/web/vsbldapbackend.py b/web/vsbldapbackend.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 31e5a076..00000000
--- a/web/vsbldapbackend.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-import ldap
-
-from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend
-from django.contrib.auth.models import User
-
-
-# Django LDAP package (inspiration for multple atttempts)
-# https://django-auth-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/custombehavior.html
-
-# Auth backend: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/auth/customizing/
-# Auth backend reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/contrib/auth/#authentication-backends-reference
-
-
-def ldap_auth(username, password):
-    ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS,0)
-    ldap.protocol_version = 3
-
-    ldap_server='ldaps://ldap.vsb.cz'
-
-    # VSB specific user context
-    trailing_context = username[-1]
-
-    # the following is the user_dn format provided by the ldap server
-    user_dn = 'cn=' + username
-
-    # adjust this to your base dn for searching
-    base_dn = 'ou=USERS,o=VSB'
-
-    connect = ldap.initialize(ldap_server)
-    search_filter = 'cn=' + username
-
-    listing = connect.search_s(base_dn, ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, user_dn, [])
-
-    if len(listing) == 0:
-        print('User not found')
-        return False
-    else:
-
-        #connect.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0)
-        try:
-            #if authentication successful, get the full user data
-            connect.simple_bind_s('cn={},ou={},ou=USERS,o=VSB'.format(username, trailing_context), password)
-            result = connect.search_s(base_dn, ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, search_filter)
-
-            # return all user data results
-            connect.unbind_s()
-            return True
-        except ldap.LDAPError as e:
-            connect.unbind_s()
-            print('authentication error')
-            return False
-
-
-class MyLDAPBackend(ModelBackend):
-    def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None):
-        if not username or not password:
-            return None
-
-        username = username.upper()
-        try:
-            authenticated = ldap_auth(username, password)
-            if authenticated:
-                return User.objects.get(username=username)
-        except User.DoesNotExist:
-            pass
-
-        return None