Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Currently you need to be wheel or grouperSystem... maybe we need to revisit 
that too...
Scott, if you are at the member meeting next week maybe we can discuss 
informally there.

Thanks,
Chris

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 On Behalf Of Scott Koranda
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [grouper-users] putting attributes on a 'member'

> Hi,
> 
> I used gsh to put an attribute value onto a 'member' like
> this:
> 
> s = 
> SubjectFinder.findById("")
>  
> m = MemberFinder.findBySubject(grouperSession, s, false)
> m.getAttributeValueDelegate().assignValue("Communities:LVC:authorNameFirstInitial",
> "S")
> 
> It worked. Great.
> 
> But it also reminded me to ask this naive question: what is
> the distinction between a subject and a member? 
> 
> Is it only that a member is a subject with a membership in at
> least one group known to Grouper, while a subject can "live"
> outside of Grouper without being a member of any group?
> 

Also, what privileges are needed in order for a subject/member
to assign a value to an attribute for that member?

I did this:

authorFirstInitialAttrDef.getPrivilegeDelegate().grantPriv(s,AttributeDefPrivilege.ATTR_OPTIN,
 false)

but when I then try to assign a value for that attribute
(using Grouper WS) I get

edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.exception.InsufficientPrivilegeException:
Subject Subject id: 
,
 sourceId: ligo is
not wheel or GrouperSystem\n\tat 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.attr.assign.AttributeAssignMemberDelegate.assertCanUpdateAttributeDefName...

In plain english, I want a user to be able to set some
attributes on himself or herself.

Thanks,

Scott