Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Can you please try upgrading to 2.2.1 including patches and let me know if 
you still have the problem?  You should be able to do this with the grouper 
upgrader.

Thanks,
Chris

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Subject: [grouper-users] LDAP auth and the wheel group?

Hi,

I'm still in the early stages of playing and learning with Grouper v2.2.0. 
I've got a basic folder/group hierarchy set up, subjects coming from AD, and 
a number of groups being successfully populated via the Loader :-).

I'm now trying to switch to using our AD for authentication by switching to a 
JNDIRealm in Tomcat's server.xml - of course this means that I can no longer 
log on using the GrouperSystem account, so I've been trying to enable my AD 
account to be an admin account in Grouper by adding it to my "wheel" group . 
. . 

I've added:

groups.wheel.use                      = true

- to "grouper.properties", and I note:

groups.wheel.group                    = etc:sysadmingroup

- in "grouper.base.properties".

I created "etc:sysadmingroup" (as the Grouper System user) and added myself 
to it, however this doesn't appear to be working as hoped/expected.

If I log on using my AD username, authentication appears to work and I arrive 
at the Grouper (new) UI and I'm correctly identified as me in the "Logged in 
as" line, but in the "Browse Folders" panel, it just shows "Error", which is 
reflected in the logs (appropriate snippet attached).

If I switch to the old UI, I can browse the folder hierarchy, but I can only 
see groups that I have been granted explicit permissions for (i.e. still not 
behaving as an admin user).

Have I misunderstood how this is supposed to work? or am I missing something 
obvious (or done something stupid!)?

Any thoughts, observations, or pointers would be most welcome as I'm not sure 
what to try next.

Cheers,

Mike

Michael White 
eLearning Liaison and Development (eLD)
Information Services
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University of Stirling 
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