You can do
if auth.user and not auth.user.first_name:
.... pull them from ldap and store them in auth.user....
On Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:10:18 UTC-6, Robert Bjornson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use our university CAS server as the authentication for my
> web2py app. I am able to direct logins to CAS fine, by using this code in
> my model file:
>
> auth=Auth(db, cas_provider='https://securedev.its.yale.edu/cas')
>
> After completing the cas login, when I look at db.auth_user table, or
> session.auth.user, only auth_user.registration_id has a value, which is
> https://securedev.its.yale.edu/cas/rdb9.
>
> If I do subsequent logins using the same login name, web2py finds the
> existing user entry and gives me that id. So far so good.
>
> My question is, how can I cleanly fill in the other fields of the user
> entry (things like firstname, lastname, etc.). I can pull them from my
> local ldap
> server using the login name. But, what is the clean way to push them into
> the database when the record is first created? Is there a callback to
> login that I can use for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
>
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