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I've been trying to work with it for a little bit now and I think it's really slick however I'm struggling to find any good documentation on it what-so-ever.

Edit: hit submit too quick, but here is the docs that I do have; https://django-auth-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I've been trying to work with it for a little bit now and I think it's really slick however I'm struggling to find any good documentation on it what-so-ever. Edit: hit submit too quick, but here is the docs that I do have; https://django-auth-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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yep, sadly I need to use it

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Lol. Are you stuck on the django or python part?

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lol neither the code but more so the configuration into a nextcloud instance. fucking ldap and the groups are throwing more curveball to me than the cdc

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LDAP is easy.

It's built like a inverted tree for the most part. You'll have a root, usually something like rootdse (ID and schema rules) and then it breaks down into OUs or Organizational Units. Something like dc=poal,dc=com woud be an OU. Under that you'd have groups, usually an application group like ou=exchange or ou=sql or ou=gaschamber. Elsewhere you'd have user groups like ou=kikes,dc=poal,dc=com OR ou=AccountsPayable,dc=poal,dc=com. You'd assign someone from a user group to an application group and that app would use LDAP for authentication for whatever access the user needed.

cn=Schlomo P. Kike,ou=kikes,dc=poal,dc=com can be assigned to the ou=gaschamber,dc=poal,dc=com group. Then Schlomo would gain access to the Gas Chamber. But Linda from accounting might need access to the ou=gaschamber group to pay for the Zyklon B the application requires. so cn=Linda Goy,ou=AccountsPayable,dc=poal,dc=com would also be assigned to the ou=gaschamber,dc=poal,dc=com group.

Here is a link that explains it pretty well.

http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/