+1, useful feature for enterprises. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Erich Hochmuth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Would there be interest in updating the LDAP backend to support two new > features: > > - direct bind searching using the credentials from those of the > user authenticating with the WebUI > - a distinguished name template to allow the user supplied user login to > be augmented > > My IT group doesn’t allow an anonymous search nor do they support creating > an application account to bind to LDAP. > > Looking at the LDAP backend the only issue that would need to be worked out > would be when to cache the superuser and data_profiler settings since those > could’t always happen at the time that the LdapUser is instantiated. > https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/blob/master/ > airflow/contrib/auth/backends/ldap_auth.py > > I’d be happy to create a Jira and make these changes if folks thought they > fit in. > > Thanks, > Erich >
