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["Dr. Loris Bennett" <>]

OK, Tom, it's now on my todo list.

Looking around the contrib section I didn't see anything to indicate
that there was already a preferred way of creating such a package, so I
guess I get to make it up myself.

Regards

Loris


On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 07:49 -0500, Tom Barton wrote:
> From your exchange with Chris, it sounds like you'll be able to use 
> hooks to add-on a good gid management capability to grouper. I bet 
> you're right that some other sites would find that valuable. When you're 
> ready, would you care to package it up and make it available in the 
> contrib area of the grouper wiki? We don't currently have an area for 
> Freie Universität Berlin, but that can quickly be corrected!
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> Dr. Loris Bennett wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:12 -0500, Tom Barton wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > On the one hand, our first customer "just wants to have" his existing
> > GIDs in the LDAP tree provisioned by Grouper. On the other we thought it
> > might be of general use if groups could be given a university-wide Unix
> > GID. Thus, Grouper would indeed be the system of record for GIDs and
> > system could use the provisioned LDAP tree as a NIS-replacement, if
> > needed.
> > 
> > Loris
> > 
> >> 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
> >>>
> 
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