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LDAP Authenticator Plugin for Jupyter
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Fetch UIDs from LDAP server #205

Closed quasis closed 2 months ago

quasis commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure whether this feature request belongs here, it sort of falls between two (or even 3) chairs.

There is plugin out there, that combines between LDAPAuthenticator and LocalAuthenticator. It is a 1 line project, that inherits both authenticators in order to create a local posix user once he was authenticated against some LDAP server. The only problem with this "combined" authenticator, is that local UIDs are arbitrary and dont match the UIDs stored on the LDAP server.

Now, LocalAuthenticator has support for UID maps, you can do the following:

c.LocalAuthenticator.uids = {'alice': 1000, 'bob': 1001}

So theoretically, if LDAPAuthenticator could retrieve the UID of the user and populate uids field, with bindDN-UID pair, the problem would be solved.

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consideRatio commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the clear description! I think I'll go for a close here though. I think reasoning about this may belong in the project working with the local users.