[ckan-dev] Announce: LDAP auth plugin

[Adam McGreggor]

On 23 Jun 2014, at 10:32, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
> In both of my cases I felt the chances of a name conflict (where
> there's a Persona or WAAD user with the same email address or OID as an
> existing CKAN user who is not the same person) was small. Two different
> people shouldn't have the same email address, and WAAD OIDs are these
> long randomised strings so the chance of a conflict is small.

An exception to this might be for functional aliases (press@, info@,
support@), which in any case shouldn’t [1] be associated with ~a~ user,
but I have seen some instances where they are (and all people on
that alias login as foo at example.org)


[1] as an alias, not a real user account