Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

Hi Caleb,

If you have an existing LDAP directory then using the JNDI source adapter 
is the best way of making your users available to Grouper. A sample 
configuration should be commented out in sources.xml. Documentation is 
available at:
<https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/subject-0.2.1-doc>

Gary

--On 12 September 2006 07:56 -0400 

 wrote:

> Hi
>
> Apologies if this message is recieved twice sympa appears to dislike my
> adress alternating between @ncl.ac.uk and @newcastle.ac.uk so i am using
> the web based posting feature.
>
>
>
> I'm  starting out with grouper and the first thing that  I am struggling
> with is to see is how I start out using it with my userbase. Are there
> any guides on how to use grouper with  a large userbase (73k users)? I've
> looked at the documentation and I can see how to bootstrap the wheel
> group [1] and I can see some example code for adding a user [2].
>
> However I'm a bit confused as to how I best to bulk add users.  Should I
> write something based on the AddLocalSubject code[2], or should I be
> using the import tool [3] and figuring out how to get my userbase into an
> xml file? Or should I be looking at some kind of integration with
> existing ldap stores via the subject API and Source interface [4]?
>
> I have already deployed shibboleth login and can propagate that to tomcat
> so the authentication angle is sorted.
>
> If anyone is looking for use cases my use case is that I need to have a
> group that identifies both medical staff and students. Medical students
> can easily be identified by querying a course databases to see who is on
> a medical course. Medical staff have to be registered by hand after a
> conversation with a medical librarian, the purpose of the conversation is
> to see if they are a medic and may involve looking at their contract.
> Once a user is identified as  "medical" they can look at autopsy videos
> held outside the institute [5] and accessed via shibboleth.  This looks
> like the kind of problem that grouper aims to solve. I have many more
> potential usecases and see grouper as potentially a useful service for
> the entire campus.
>
> Regards
>
> Caleb Racey
> Webteam
> ISS
> Newcastle University
>
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Developer%27s+Gui
> de+to+the+Grouper+API+v1.0 [2]
> http://viewvc.internet2.edu/viewvc.py/grouper/src/grouper/edu/internet2/m
> iddleware/grouper/eg/AddLocalSubject.java?revision=1.3&root=I2MI&view=mar
> kup [3]
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Import-Export+v1.0
> [4] https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Subject+API
> [5] http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/shibb.shtml



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing