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[Tom Barton <>]

Thanks! If you need any help, you know where to reach us. :-) -Tom

Dr. Loris Bennett wrote:
> 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