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[Gagné Sébastien <>]

I did a few more tests, and doing similar changes using an LDIF file using Apache Directory Studio did work, so I’m a little more confused

 

#!RESULT OK

#!DATE 2013-02-04T20:42:57.142

dn: CN=0107-admins,OU=acad,OU=Grouper,OU=People,DC=devsim,DC=umontreal,DC=ca

changetype: modify

replace: description

description: DEPARTEMENT

-

 

#!RESULT OK

#!DATE 2013-02-04T20:43:17.269

dn: CN=0107-admins,OU=acad,OU=Grouper,OU=People,DC=devsim,DC=umontreal,DC=ca

changetype: modify

replace: description

description: Departement

 

#!RESULT OK

#!DATE 2013-02-04T20:43:23.062

dn: CN=0107-admins,OU=acad,OU=Grouper,OU=People,DC=devsim,DC=umontreal,DC=ca

changetype: modify

replace: description

description:: RMOpcGFydGVtZW50  (note : this is « Département » in base 64)

 

De : Gagné Sébastien
Envoyé : 4 février 2013 14:23
À : Grouper Dev ()
Objet : Different attribute that are the same for AD

 

Hi,

A few weeks back I sent an email about AD thinking accent character are the same as their non-accented form and that cause an error in the sync. I found another use case that should be more plausible for an english crowd : upper vs lower-case

 

Here is a use case using the “description” attribute :

1-      A course is created using the description “MASTERS DEGREE”

2-      Our loader creates a group with the description “MASTERS DEGREE”

3-      The group is synched in Active directory with description = MASTERS DEGREE

4-      2 days later, the teacher sees the all caps title and changes it to “Masters Degree”

5-      Grouper updates the description to “Masters Degree”

6-      The PSP sees the difference (changelog or bulk) and tries to change “MASTERS DEGREE” to “Masters Degree”

7-      Active Directory throws an exception saying it’s the same value (LDAP: error code 20 (ATT_OR_VALUE_EXISTS))

 

This wouldn’t happen if another letter was added or changed. Do you think something can be done about it ? I have trouble seeing what could be done…

 

 

Sébastien Gagné,     | Analyste en informatique

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