Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Peter DiCamillo <>]

Another possibility that's doubtful, but maybe worth checking, is that 
the copy of grouper.properties deployed to the Grouper UI in Tomcat 
includes those edits.

Peter

On 5/22/13 11:22 AM, Gagné Sébastien wrote:
> AFAIK you only need to be a member of the etc:sysadmingroup, maybe the 
> problem is your shib authentication ? Could there be a subject source 
> mismatch between the subject in the Group and the subject that’s logged 
> in (doubtful) ?
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>
> The logged-in user in linux that is running Grouper doesn’t have any 
> impact here
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> *De :*  
> [mailto:] *De la part de* Rob Gorrell
> *Envoyé :* 22 mai 2013 10:45
> *À :* Earl Lewis
> *Cc :* 
>
> *Objet :* Re: [grouper-users] creating an initial admin user :confused:
>
>  
>
> No, i'm not seeing that I guess furthur confirming I've not been 
> successful in setting myself up as an admin. I guess what I'm confused 
> about, beyond making myself a subject and putting myself into a 
> etc:sysadmin group, how do I tell Grouper the sysadmin group (and thus 
> its members) be granted admin access?
>
>  
>
> -Rob
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>  
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Earl Lewis < 
> <mailto:>> wrote:
>
>     Are you seeing the "Act as admin/Act as self" drop down control in
>     the top right of the page? If so, then you are logged in as a user
>     with admin rights. When you're logged in as an admin you should see
>     a relatively short list of options on the left navigation pane
>     (Explore, Search, etc…). 
>
>      
>
>     If you're logged in as a regular user, or acting as yourself using
>     the "act as…" option in the UI, then you'll see additional options
>     in the left sidebar for managing the things that you have access to
>     within grouper. These don't show up for admin users because
>     presumably they have access to everything within the UI.
>
>      
>
>     Earl
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> <mailto:>
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>     801-581-3635 <tel:801-581-3635> (office)
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>     801-554-3596 <tel:801-554-3596> (mobile)
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>      
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>     On 5/22/13 6:42 AM, "Rob Gorrell" 
> <
>     
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
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>      
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>         So I've got my initial grouper api and ui setup going... even
>         managed to shibbolize the ui to where I'm logging in and being
>         mapped to a grouper subject using eppn (ie, 
>
>         
> <mailto:>)...
>  but of course I'm winding up as a
>         normal user in an otherwise empty grouper install. that leaves
>         me next to figure out how to turn my only subject into an admin
>         user. from the documentation, so far I've edit
>         grouper.properties to:
>
>         configuration.autocreate.system.groups = true
>         groups.wheel.use = true
>         groups.wheel.group = etc:sysadmingroup
>
>         I've verified the etc:sysadmingroup is created and my subject
>         
> (
>  
> <mailto:>)
>  is indeed a
>         member of it. I also see this reflected when I log into the UI.
>         However, when I log into the UI, i don't see to have any special
>         mojo to create groups or folders/stems in the root. from here,
>         i'm not really sure where to go. I thought it was as merely
>         adding a just to the group named in grouper.properties as the
>         wheel group? am I having problems because my grouper subject
>         
> (
>  
> <mailto:>)
>  is not named the
>         same as my linux user acct who's in the linux system's wheel
>         group (rwgorrel)? where do i need to go to from here in getting
>         my subject 
> (
>  
> <mailto:>)
>  setup
>         as a full blown grouper admin?
>
>         Thanks
>         -Rob
>
>         -- 
>
>         Robert W. Gorrell
>         Middleware Engineer, Identity and Access Management
>
>         University of NC at Greensboro
>         336-334-5954 <tel:336-334-5954>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Robert W. Gorrell
> Middleware Engineer, Identity and Access Management
>
> University of NC at Greensboro
> 336-334-5954