Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Thomas M Goerger <>]

Do I just add that by adding the attribute to the grouper.properties file,
and setting it to true?  And then rebuild the API?


On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> Grouper does membership mapping against a row in grouper_members. You can
> change the subject id there and all the group memberships / privileges
> still work because they map to a group using the member uuid.
>
> There is a Member.setSubjectId method which allows GrouperSystem to do this
> change via the API.
>
> Gary
>
> --On 17 April 2008 09:56 -0500 Thomas M Goerger 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having an issue with changing the underlying name that Grouper is
> > using to identify a user.  We have an attribute called OfficialName that
> > we want to use as the unique identifier in Grouper.  Changing this value,
> > as might happen if someone has a legal name change, seems to be
> > problematic for Grouper.  It recognizes the change if you do another
> > search, but if you try to list members in a group where one of the names
> > has been changed, Grouper spits back a Runtime Exception.
> >
> > Anyone else dealt with this at all?  How do you deal with a changing id in
> > your implementation?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tom Goerger
> > University of Minnesota - Internet Services
> >
>
>
>
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> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
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