UserDetails

NAME
    UserDetails - Return the details we hold about a user.

DESCRIPTION
    The UserDetails LUMP API script returns the user ID, username, fullname
    and email for a user when supplied with either the user ID or username.
    If the script is passed a username and there is no matching user in the
    LUMP database, it will try to use external authentication data sources
    (such as ActiveDirectory) to locate a matching user and instantiate a
    record in the LUMP database for them.

PARAMETERS
  Standard
    *username* - Name of user running this CGI script. Required unless web
    server authentication is in use (when it is, the web server
    authenticated user is used instead).
    *password* - Password for the user. This is only required if the web
    server is not handling the user authentication and if no security hash
    parameter is being given.
    *security_hash* - An opaque value used to authenticate the user without
    requiring the password to be sent. This value is generated by a previous
    execution of a LUMP API script and may well be time limited. It is only
    required if no password or webserver authentication is done.
    *act_as* - Users in the SysAdmins group can elect to act on the behalf
    of other users once they are themselves authenticated. If this parameter
    is present it should contain the username of the user that should be
    switched to if this option is available and the real user has been
    authenticated successfully. Optional.
    *session_id* - An opaque string as far as the server is concerned that
    is intended solely to allow async clients to differentiate different
    results more easily. Optional.

  Specific for this script
    *target_user_id* - ID for the user. This has to be supplied if no
    target_username is given.
    *target_username* - Username for the user. This has to be supplied if no
    target_user_id is given.

RESULTS
    The script returns an XML document in the standard LUMP response format
    (as documented in LUMP-XML-Response). The <returns> section's contains
    the XML structure following this DTD fragment:

     <!ELEMENT returns (usergroup+)>
     <!ELEMENT user  (id|username|fullname|email)>
     <!ELEMENT id (#PCDATA)>
     <!ELEMENT username (#PCDATA)>
     <!ELEMENT fullname (#PCDATA)>
     <!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>

    For example:

     <response>
      <returns>
       <user>
        <id>123</id>
        <username>toby123</username>
        <fullname>Toby MacHater</fullname>
        <email>T.MacHater@biguniversity.ac.uk</email>
       </user>
      </returns>
     </response>

SEE ALSO
    UserGroupMembership

    SUOwner

    Members4Usergroup

    LUMP-XML-Response

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2010 Loughborough University Library <library@lboro.ac.uk>.

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