Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Good catch.  I put in logic to trim whitespace off of property file values to 
prevent this from happening again (in Grouper 1.4+).

Regards,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas M Goerger 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:09 PM
> To: Tom Barton
> Cc: 
> 
> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Wheel Group Use
>
> Okay, I've found the problem.  I had the groups.wheel.use and
> groups.wheel.group attributes set to the proper values.  However, there
> was an extra space at the end of each that seemed to be throwing things
> off.  Once I removed these, I'm now seeing the dropdown in the proper
> place.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Tom Barton wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > 
> > >
> >
> >