Populate User fields with LDAP values

[cschiewek]

Populate User fields with LDAP values

[shanepinnell]

Seems to me like this should work. I am looking at doing the exact same thing! Have you forked this yet?

Have you tried changing

resource.name = entry.cn

to

resource[:name] = entry.cn

[shanepinnell]

OK, I got it working for me... The salient point being that the entry elements are returned as an array. So, changing the following worked for me:

    ldap.search( :base => treebase, :filter => filter, :attributes => attrs ) do |entry|
      resource.name = entry.cn
      resource.title = entry.title
      resource.mail = entry.mail
      resource.phone = entry.phone
    end

Changed to:

    ldap.search( :base => treebase, :filter => filter, :attributes => attrs ) do |entry|
      resource.name = entry.cn.first
      resource.title = entry.title.first
      resource.mail = entry.mail.first
      resource.phone = entry.phone.first
    end

I suppose this follows from the Net::LDAP documentation that contains blocks which iterate through the various elements which would extract the values stored in the arrays.

[cschiewek]

This functionality exists in master.

[peelman]

So not to bring up the ghost of a dead horse, but is there documentation available on how to do this anywhere? I worked out that we can use an ldap_before_save method in the user model to essentially serve as callback duties, but is there a way to fetch ldap attributes from there without having to rebuild the query? What am I missing?

Figured it out.

In my user.rb:

    def ldap_before_save
      self.firstname = self.ldap_get_param(self.username, 'givenName')
      self.lastname = self.ldap_get_param(self.username, 'sn')
      self.title = self.ldap_get_param(self.username, 'description')
      self.email = self.ldap_get_param(self.username, 'mail')
    end