Yes you are right, but there is something in the book, something in the 
code....no complete full documentation...managed in only one site. It's 
like it is...I have to accept this. thanks

Il giorno martedì 11 aprile 2017 15:07:00 UTC+2, Anthony ha scritto:
>
> On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 9:01:09 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 8:55:20 AM UTC-4, Carlos Cesar Caballero 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys, I think he is talking about the web2py api, and there are some 
>>> undocumented features, by example, when you authenticate against an ldap 
>>> you can map ldap groups against web2py groups, but this is not documented, 
>>> and there are some undocumented features like that.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, a few more advanced features are not documented, but that is far 
>> from being "no documentation".
>>
>
> And to be fair, ldap is a contrib module, and there is quite a bit of 
> documentation in the module itself. For example:
>
>     If you need group control from ldap to web2py app's database feel free
>     to set:
>
>         auth.settings.login_methods.append(ldap_auth(...as usual...,
>             manage_groups=True,
>             db=db,
>             group_dn='ou=Groups,dc=domain,dc=com',
>             group_name_attrib='cn',
>             group_member_attrib='memberUid',
>             group_filterstr='objectClass=*'
>            ))
>
>         Where:
>         manage_group - let web2py handle the groups from ldap
>         db - is the database object (need to have auth_user, auth_group,
>             auth_membership)
>         group_dn - the ldap branch of the groups
>         group_name_attrib - the attribute where the group name is stored
>         group_member_attrib - the attribute containing the group members 
> name
>         group_filterstr - as the filterstr but for group select
>
> In fact, the book even explicitly directs the reader to the documentation 
> within the module:
>
> *See the documentation of ldap_auth in 
> web2py/gluon/contrib/login_methods/ldap_auth.py*
>
> Anthony
>

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