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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Chris Hastie a écrit :

> What exactly is the attributes_user field used for? As far as I can 
> make out it takes a semi-colon separated list or field value pairs, 
> but does Sympa have a particular idea of what sort of data? Or can I 
> just use it for anything I wish?

Actually this database field should rather be renamed 
'session_attributes_user'. It is used to store external short-time 
session user attributes. Currently this database field is only used when 
Sympa delegates user authentication to a Single Sign-On system like 
Shibboleth : 
http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node10.html#SECTION001030000000000000000

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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites