Merge with https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-ldap

[aliceh75]

Hello,

It looks like this plugin and the one at https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-ldap were developed pretty much at the same time.

No point having multiple plugins, maybe we could join forces? the Natural History Museum plugin has a lot more features - maybe it would make sense to merge into that one. Is there anything that this plugin does that is not handled by the Natural History Museum one?

[tobes]

Hi,
Only just got this, github is getting really crap about sending notifications.

I suppose the main difference is that this one is incredibly simple. Skimming what you have I think the differences I see are.

• forcing ldap usernames to lowercase which is pretty stupid but needed by the client
• Automatically making users sys admins depending on ldap group (and updating across logins)
• Replaces the Ckan user stuff as this is now all done via ldap

This was created for a specific client, with specific needs - And unfortunately they are no longer funding this. I agree that it would be good to look at merging these but I'm not sure of the practicalities of it. Switching to your extension would break things for my client I think due to how users appear to be handled.

Maybe the best approach is just to reference each-other in our readme files.

I am aware of at least one other person who has been using this extension.

4 months ago we could probably have worked together well