Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Jeff McCullough <>]

To piggy back on this, is something akin to this the recommended way to 
change a subject source? We have been using LDAP as our subject source, and 
may change this to a DB view. 

Jeff
 
> On Oct 28, 2015, at 4:55 AM, Chris Hyzer 
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>  wrote:
> 
> I think you can just change the subject_id field in the database table 
> grouper_members for that record.  The reason for memberChangeSubject is 
> there will be a foreign key problem if the new subject exists.  Shilen, let 
> me know if you disagree here.  Kumi, if this is what you want to do, you 
> can do that directly in the DB or I can give you GSH to do this...  note, 
> if the old subject is still being resolved and used after you make the 
> change, it will create a new grouper_members record for the old subject 
> again.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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> Subject: [grouper-users] Changing a userName(subjectId)
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.  I'd like to be
> able to update a username (subjectId) when user's name is updated in the 
> data
> source.
> At first this MemberChangeSubject seemed like the solution, 
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Member+change+subject
> but it looks like the new and old subject must already exist and it updates
> the membership details, not the subject details.  In my case, the new 
> subject
> doesn't exist.  Is there a way to update the subjectId of the old/existing
> subject?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kumi