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[Tom Barton <>]

Or you could use Grouper Shell to make the change. Using Gary's code as 
a model, the corresponding sequence of gsh commands would be

s=GrouperSession.start(SubjectFinder.findRootSubject())
m=MemberFinder.findByUuid(s, "<uuid>")
m.setSubjectId("newId")

Tom

GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> No, you would need to write some code to do it. I'm sure we can come up 
> with a command line script but we're busy getting 1.3.0 ready just now.
>
> You could alter the database directly -
>
> update grouper_members set subject_id=:newId where subject_id=:oldId
>
> The code would look something like:
>
> GrouperSession s = GrouperSession.start(SubjectFinder.findRootSubject();
> Member m = MemberFinder.findByUuid(s, "<uuid>") ; //look up uuid in the db
> m.setSubjectId(newId);
>
> Gary
>
> --On 17 April 2008 11:31 -0500 Thomas M Goerger 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------------------
> > > GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
>
>
>
> ----------------------
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
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