Feature request: retrieve user's email address from Crowd

[pmuller]

First of all, thanks for your work! :)

It would be great for Rundeck to use the email addresses exposed on Crowd's API.

I tried to understand how to do it by looking at Rundeck's LDAP backend, but it seems it also not implemented (rundeck/rundeck#946).

How hard is it to implement?

Disclaimer: I have almost no knowledge of the Java world.

[pmuller]

As I really wanted to get email addresses, I wrote a small Python script for this: https://github.com/pmuller/rundeck-create-users-from-ldap

[flopma]

Indeed, this is a useful feature request, unfortunately, after analysis, I cannot implement it currently:

• JAAS , out of the box, has nothing to store extra data of a user
• There is two ways I could use to add extra user data:
  -- One is to use another class instead of the JAASPrincipal, but then this must come from Rundeck team. If I define a class on my own, it will not work
  -- Second is to write a Rundeck plugin which fetchs the user extra data from Crowd, but there is no specific event I could listen to for doing this properly. Some events which exists are Job started, Job ended, but I would not refresh use data each time a Job is run.

So in both ways, I need some changes from Rundeck team.

[flopma]

Waiting for the rundeck feature request to land in a rundeck version so I can implement this feature request as well