# LDAP badge?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-badge/382116
**Category:** SSO
**Tags:** badges, sso
**Created:** [September 9, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-badge/382116 "2025-09-09T21:09:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@strk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/strk)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-badge/382116/1 "2025-09-09T21:09:57Z")
Hello, is it possible to assign a badge to those whose username matches the LDAP username and were authenticated via LDAP ? We currently allow rigistering local accounts too so someone could register someone else’s LDAP username as a local account and we’d like to be able to tell the difference…
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-badge/382116/2 "2025-09-09T21:28:21Z")
I think what I’d do is get LDAP to assign people to some group and give that group Badge Flair. [Setting a primary group for users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-primary-group-for-users/25857) might help?
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### Author:  [@strk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/strk)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-badge/382116/3 "2025-09-12T08:03:21Z")
Any idea how to get LDAP to assign people to some group ?
Sounds like something that should be implemented by the LDAP plugin,
but I don’t see any option to do that in the admin panel.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-badge/382116/4 "2025-09-12T11:40:15Z")
Oh. Sorry. I thought I’d would’ve d be as simple as adding the groups to some ldap field, but it looks like you’ll need a plugin.
> [@What is this code add\_to\_serializer in all these plugins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-code-add-to-serializer-in-all-these-plugins/58913/19):
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> I’m working on a plugin to automate discourse group syncing with ldap. I added a custom field to Group (ldap\_dn) to save the ldap group name in. I’m trying to retrieve the custom\_field value from an input field that i added in the membership plugin-outlet and save that to the db to later use it. To do so i added this to my plugin.rb file Group.register\_custom\_field\_type(‘ldap\_dn’, :text) Group.preload\_custom\_fields\<\< “ldap\_dn” if Group.respond\_to? :preloaded\_custom\_fields if SiteSetting.…
If you’re self hosted you can make one or ask in #Marketplace.
Your ldap users some all have the same email hostname, do they? If so, you can assign the group using that.