[SAC] Using OSGeo LDAP for custom web apps

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:43 PM, ext Martin Dobias wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> for QGIS project we are building a new Plugin Repository - a place
> where people can share their plugins. The app (in django) will be
> hosted in QGIS virtual machine on OSGeo server.
> 
> I have only basic basic understanding of LDAP and its usage within
> OSGeo, so my questions are:
> 1. would it be possible to get the access to the LDAP server for doing
> user authentication? (I.e. the app sends user/pass, the servers
> answers yes/no.) This would help us a lot since we could avoid the
> necessity to have another pair of username/password for each author of
> a plugin.

The qgis server has access to the OSGeo LDAP information via ldaps.

> 2. would it be possible to find out also user's real name and mail address?

If you are bound to ldap as a user, I think this information is available,
yes.

> In future we would also like to set up a central repository for map
> symbols - featuring various import/export filters, so the symbols
> could be uploaded/downloaded in virtually any format. Such an
> application would make good use of osgeo userids too.

-- Chris