Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Kathryn Huxtable <>]

So there's no action queue or anything like that that would prevent two
copies provisioning groups to two different LDAP directories... -K


On 1/15/07 8:34 AM, "Tom Barton" 
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 wrote:

> <taking this to just the grouper-users list>
> 
> 
> 
> Kathryn Huxtable wrote:
>> 1) can we run multiple copies of ldappc to provision two separate
>> directories, e.g. a SunJava directory server for most uses and an Active
>> Directory server for our Exchange distribution lists? Will they collide in
>> any way?
>> 
>> I guess I'm asking how ldappc knows that a change has occurred in Grouper 
>> or
>> Signet.
> 
> Ldappc essentially computes a logical diff between the groups,
> memberships, and permissions selected from the grouper and signet
> databases and those that are in the configured schema and DIT areas in
> the target directory. It makes no change whatsoever to the grouper or
> signet databases.
> 
>> 2) Are there any plans for a JDBC source connector configuration in this? 
>> We
>> don't generally use JNDI for our sources. We *can*, but I'm not sure why
>> we'd want to.
> 
> No. We focused specifically on ldap since that covers the largest number
> of potential deployments.
> 
> The ldappc code might give you a leg up, though, on building a
> provisioning connector for some other target technology. It's
> architected with pieces that face grouper & signet and separate pieces
> that face the target. You might be able to reuse the former and the
> overall application architecture.
>