[SAC] Using OSGeo LDAP for custom web apps

[Martin Spott]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 03:52:49PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> >2. would it be possible to find out also user's real name and mail address?
> 
> This is a bit more involved as your scripts would need more
> privileged access than is normally needed just for authentication.
> It is technically possible, though I'd like to know if other
> SAC folks have any administrative or security concerns before
> we proceeded with this.

The user's EMail address in our LDAP directory is 'public' information,
if you're permitted to bind to the service - which, as FrankW pointed
out, is possible from the QGIS VM.

Cheers,
	Martin.
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