Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Kathryn Huxtable wrote:
> My comments are included below.
>
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Tom Barton wrote:
> > If we want to continue supporting the provisioning of group UUIDs into 
> > a membership attribute, then either precisely one provisioner must own 
> > the entire value space, or some bookkeeper DB is needed.
>
> I *really* don't see a problem with decorating the UUIDs. This would be 
> optional and would not affect existing Ldappc installations. It would 
> solve a problem for those who need it.

I agree that the first of my two reasons for not decorating really 
doesn't apply to UUIDs. But the second reason still does (hard to ever 
change how you provision things if the change would mean that some of 
the same groups appear in ldap with new values due to changed decoration).

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It seems that a fairly easy thing to do that is helpful in some common 
circumstances is to enhance ldappc so that it recognizes a set of stems 
that it owns. If folks agree that's worthwhile, then the next step is 
for Kathryn to propose a way of so configuring it.

Tom
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