# LDAP sensible data hidden to admins?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 5, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749 "2016-05-05T18:15:03Z")
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### Author: ![yadlabus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@yadlabus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yadlabus)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749/1 "2016-05-05T18:15:03Z")

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Hello,

I’m a newbie about this LDAP authorization stuff, so I’ll explain my issue with very simple words.

My company adopted discourse for an internal forum after I showed them how nice it was 🙂. They created a new instance on our company internal server, configured LDAP for secured authentications and restored a backup from my old Digital Ocean discourse forum.

In the process, my admin privileges have been downgraded to moderator. There are privileges that I am really missing such as category editing or user group managing.

The new admin who is also our company network architect, sent me a snapshot of the Admin/Settings/Plugins tab. He hid 2 parameters from the LDAP plugin:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/d/9db7cdf539f3139ac78034d542f93580fdb92ddb.png)  
I guess those are very sensible parameters that I should not have access as an admin of the forum, since I am not an IT but a simple employee in my company.

Is there a way to regain my admin privileges and yet those informations to remain hidden to me?

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### Author: ![Overmind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/overmind/32/55446_2.png) [@Overmind](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overmind)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749/2 "2016-05-05T18:46:23Z")

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That’s basically what I’m trying to get at [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-restrictions/43708). If there is a way to have restrictions on administrators so they have access to the features they need, but not absolutely everything. There currently doesn’t seem to be a way to do this with default discourse.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749/3 "2016-05-05T20:46:26Z")

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There are no plans for this at the current time.

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749/4 "2024-06-08T12:45:40Z")

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