[Catalyst] $c->user and session questions

[Kenneth S Mclane]

I have an LDAP server authenticating my users. The look up returns a ton 
of fields in a hash. My questions are as follows:

1. What happens to this data/information? Is it stored in the $c->user 
object?

2. If it is, how do I access it? 

3. Is there a simple way to look at what is stored in the user object?

4. I would like to store the users role in the session object so it can be 
accessed for authorization purposes. The docs only have an example of 
storing stuff in a shopping cart, which is a bit more than I need, but 
there isn't enough there for me to figure out how to store just one thing, 
and retrieve it, of course. Can someone show me how to do this?

Here is a sample of what comes back from the ldap lookup:

SEQUENCE {
051D   11:         STRING = 'hrFirstName'
052A    9:         SET {
0530    7:           STRING = 'KENNETH'
0539     :         }
0539     :       }

I would like to use this as a greeting string in my site wrapper, but I'm 
not sure how to reference it, or if it is even in the object.

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