LDAP-authenticated user can't set a default theme

[jblanchg]

Hi! I have a QWC2 installation that uses this service for authentication. When I first set it up, I noticed that some features didn’t work properly for users authenticated via LDAP — for example, adding bookmarks. This was fixed by adding "store_bookmarks_by_userid": false to the Permalink configuration.

Now I’ve noticed that a user authenticated through LDAP can’t set a theme as a default theme. I assume this happens because the user doesn’t exist in the qwc-services database.

Is there currently any way to make this work? If not, what would be the best approach?

Thanks!

[manisandro]

Hi, yes correct, the default theme functionality relies on the userinfo in the config db, but with ldap-auth no associated user exists in config-db. The same issue also affected the oidc-auth service, in the end the simplest solution was to dynamically create users in the config-db. So something similar to [1][2] would need to be implemented also for the ldap-auth service.

• [1] qwc-services/qwc-oidc-auth@de8f9e3
• [2] qwc-services/qwc-oidc-auth@bfffaf3