<div class="section">
<h2><a name="exposed" id="exposed">Exposing Login Information</a></h2>
- <p>Whenever a query is made to the LDAP server, all LDAP attributes
- returned by the query are placed in the environment, using environment
- variables with the prefix "AUTHENTICATE_".</p>
+ <p>When this module performs authentication, LDAP attributes specified
+ in the <code class="directive"><a href="#authldapurl">AuthLDAPUrl</a></code>
+ directive are placed in environment variables with the prefix "AUTHENTICATE_".</p>
- <p>If an LDAP query for example returned the username, common name
+ <p>If the attribute field contains the username, common name
and telephone number of a user, a CGI program will have access to
this information without the need to make a second independent LDAP
query to gather this additional information.</p>
<section id="exposed"><title>Exposing Login Information</title>
- <p>Whenever a query is made to the LDAP server, all LDAP attributes
- returned by the query are placed in the environment, using environment
- variables with the prefix "AUTHENTICATE_".</p>
+ <p>When this module performs authentication, LDAP attributes specified
+ in the <directive module="mod_authnz_ldap">AuthLDAPUrl</directive>
+ directive are placed in environment variables with the prefix "AUTHENTICATE_".</p>
- <p>If an LDAP query for example returned the username, common name
+ <p>If the attribute field contains the username, common name
and telephone number of a user, a CGI program will have access to
this information without the need to make a second independent LDAP
query to gather this additional information.</p>