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- Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:12:19 -0500
Loris,
Would grouper be the "system of record" for gid's, or would those come from an external, authoritative source or sources? I guess I'm asking if you want grouper to replace the group-map functionality of yellow pages/NetInfo/NIS[+], or if you just need it to convey a replica of that map.
Tom
Dr. Loris Bennett wrote:
Hi,
I am planning to introduce unix-like group IDs for some groups within
grouper. Currently I have:
- A custom type with a group ID as an attribute
- A database sequence for the IDs
- A hook which inserts an ID from the sequence when a group is created
with the corresponding custom type.
What I still need are:
- A mechanism to ensure that an ID is not used more than once (e.g. some
sort of DB constraint on the attribute value)
- A mechanism to prevent the ID being changed (probably just setting the
write privilege accordingly)
- Perhaps a view of display names and group IDs
Since it seems to me that this is a rather general feature that others
might require, I was wondering whether:
a) anyone has already done this
b) whether, should there be interest, such a feature could be packaged
as an add-on for grouper
Thoughts?
Loris
- Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/10/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing, 03/10/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Loris Bennett, 03/13/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing, 03/13/2009
- RE: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Chris Hyzer, 03/13/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing, 03/13/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Loris Bennett, 03/13/2009
- RE: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Chris Hyzer, 03/10/2009
- RE: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/10/2009
- RE: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Chris Hyzer, 03/10/2009
- RE: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/11/2009
- RE: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Chris Hyzer, 03/10/2009
- RE: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/10/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Tom Barton, 03/10/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/11/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Tom Barton, 03/11/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/11/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Tom Barton, 03/11/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/11/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Tom Barton, 03/11/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, Dr. Loris Bennett, 03/11/2009
- Re: [grouper-users] Unix-like Group IDs?, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing, 03/10/2009
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