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

You should not have to identify yourself as the root user - other than by 
starting the session as the root subject:

> gsh-0.1.1 5% root=SubjectFinder.findRootSubject()
> subject: id='GrouperSystem' type='application' source='g:isa'
> name='GrouperSystem'

This shows that GSH was able to resolve GrouperSystem. The error with:

session=GrouperSession.start(root)

could be due to the database configured in 
conf/grouper.hibernate.properties being unavailable. Unfortunately the 
actual error has been 'swallowed' and so is difficult to track down. I'll 
try and take a look at the source and see if tweaking log4j.properties will 
at least lead to a meaningful message in a log file somewhere.

Gary


--On 24 April 2008 10:13 -0500 Thomas M Goerger 
<>
 wrote:

> Okay, that was the problem that I was running into initially.  I can't
> seem to get a root session started.  I'm getting the same Method
> Invocation error.
>
> gsh-0.1.1 5% root=SubjectFinder.findRootSubject()
> subject: id='GrouperSystem' type='application' source='g:isa'
> name='GrouperSystem'
> gsh-0.1.1 6% session=GrouperSession.start(root)
> // Error: unable to evaluate command: Sourced file: inline evaluation of:
> ``session=GrouperSession.start(root);'' : Method Invocation
> GrouperSession.start
>
> I'm guessing this is a permission problem also?  How does one identify
> oneself as the root user in the gsh?
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
>
> > Tom,
> >
> > The session has to be a root session:
> >
> > root=SubjectFinder.findRootSubject()
> > session=GrouperSession.start(root)
> >
> > subject=findSubject("<id>")
> > member=MemberFinder.findBySubject(session,subject)
> > member.setSubjectId("<newid>")
> >
> >
> > Internally an InsufficientPrivilegeException is thrown. Unfortunately
> > that is not reflected in the error message you got - something we'll
> > need to work on.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > --On 22 April 2008 12:53 -0500 Thomas M Goerger 
> > <>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having a problem with the setSubjectID() command.  I'm hitting my
> > > subject a little differently than below, which may be making the
> > > difference?  I'd rather not use the uuid, so I'm hitting the subject as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > subject=findSubject("<id>")
> > > session=GrouperSession.start(subject)
> > > member=MemberFinder.findBySubject(session,subject)
> > >
> > > When I then try to run:
> > >
> > > member.setSubjectId("<newid>")
> > >
> > > I'm receiving the error:
> > >
> > > // Error: unable to evaluate command: Sourced file: inline evaluation
> > > of: ``member.setSubjectId("<newid>");'' : Method Invocation
> > > member.setSubjectId
> > >
> > > Seems like its not seeing the setSubjectId subcommand at all.  I'm
> > > using GrouperShell 0.1.1.  Is there something off in my sequence that
> > > might be causing the problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tom Goerger
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Tom Barton wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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
> > >> >>> 
> >
> > >> >>>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
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> > >> > GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> > >> > 
> >
> > >>
> >
> >
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> > GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing



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