Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Zeller <>]

Are you using the psp (formerly ldappcng) to provision groups from
grouper to active directory ?

If so, I can cook up a non-flattened example.

TomZ

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Patrick Sullivan
<>
 wrote:
> Hi, Grouper Users,
>
> I have a question about the structure of how groups can be written to
> a Microsoft Active Directory domain using grouper.  I am trying to
> create a group in grouper, and make other groups members of that group
> (which I believe I have done correctly), however, when I write the
> parent group to to Active Directory, it appears that the membership of
> the child groups are being evaluated and flattened out into a single
> group with members of all child groups defined in the parent.   I
> would like the hierarchical structure defined in grouper to be
> maintained in-tact in the target AD.  Is this possible?  Is the
> flattening of the parent group in the target what I should expect to
> see as normal behavior?  I have taken some screenshots of the behavior
> that I described:
>
> https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/dansully/Public/grouper_nesting_hierarchical_source.PNG
> https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/dansully/Public/grouper_nesting_flattened_target.PNG
>
> Thank-you so much for your input.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dan Sullivan