Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

When you authenticate as a Entity in the wheel group, the GUI displays a 
widget at the top-right, under the grouper logo, to switch between 
acting as self and acting as admin.

If that widget does not appear, and if the GUI is unmodified, it must be 
either because the Entity you logged in as isn't or can't be matched to 
one that's a member of the wheel group, or because wheel group support 
isn't appropriately configured in grouper.properties (check the 
groups.wheel.use and groups.wheel.group properties).

To test the first possibility, after logging in to the GUI go to Search 
and enter the username that you authenticated with. It should pull up 
all of the details of an Entity that belongs to the wheel group, which 
can be verified by looking at the wheel group's members and clicking on 
the name of the one you believe to be the same, and comparing its Entity 
details with the one you logged in as.

Hope this helps,
Tom

Thomas M Goerger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does a wheel group user create stems and groups from within the GUI?
> I've got my wheel group set up.  Right now, it is the only stem and group
> that is present in the database, so I want to be able to use this account
> to start creating my db structure.  Right now, when I log into Grouper as
> one of these wheel group users, I don't have any options to create groups,
> or even to manage the wheel group itself.  Do the wheel group users need
> to have special privileges in the wheel group, or is there a way to switch
> over from being a 'normal' user to acting as Grouper System?  I've got
> Tomcat auth off now, so I could switch this back on, and go back in as
> GrouperSystem, but I'd like to avoid doing this for obvious reasons.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Goerger
> University of Minnesota
> Academic Computing - Internet Services