Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Peter DiCamillo <>]

For gidNumber, we've been using the idIndex that Grouper generates for 
group (and other objects): 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Integer+IDs+on+Grouper+objects 
For us, Grouper is the authoritative source for the GIDs.

Peter

On 1/20/17 3:38 PM, Michael R Gettes wrote:
> Has anyone done work to manage posix gidNumber within grouper and would you 
> care to share your work?
>
> I believe it should be possible to create a global attribute keeping the next 
> gidNumber and then to assign a gidNumber attribute with the current global 
> gidNumber to a group and then increment the global.
>
> This should be documented some place so others can leverage.
>
> I also don’t understand how to specify which groups should pushed to LDAP 
> (and how to exclude subsets).  If anyone has done this and has examples - 
> please share.
>
> I am concerned the current PSPng implementation presumes 2 group objects in 
> LDAP, one for the normal group and a separate group for the Posix version.  
> This doesn’t seem right to me, we should be able to include posix attributes 
> within any group object.  I have private email out to Bert these questions as 
> well.
>
> If I can get these problems resolved then I am halfway to eliminating the 
> need for the CMU GAP code.
>
> /mrg