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[Andre Daniels <>]

Awesome, thanks! 

I used the web service and did terrible things with the description field... } : )

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 7:54 AM Jeffrey Williams <> wrote:

I've only done this with a few groups in dev, but it can be done via gsh.  If this is a one-time import, you could write a script that creates the gsh script that builds the groups and updates them with their correct gidNumbers.

groovy:000> gs=GrouperSession.startRootSession()

and for each group, something like:

groovy:000> addGroup("uncg:apps:AAA_test", "gidNumberTestID", "gidNumberTestName")
groovy:000> group = GroupFinder.findByName(gs, "uncg:apps:AAA_test:gidNumberTestID")

groovy:000> group.setIdIndex(newIndexValue)

groovy:000> group.store();

Likewise, I'm guessing that one could update the idIndex attribute via a WS call as well, it's not something I've looked into.

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Assign+Attributes 

 

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 9:38 PM Andre Daniels <> wrote:

We want to import a bunch of posix groups into Grouper. Is there a way to create them with their current gid's? I saw a snippet of documentation that suggested this was possible but I do not see the indexId parameter in the Web Service documentation.

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Integer+IDs+on+Grouper+objects

When creating groups, you can specify the id index (if the user is allowed to do so, and the index is not in use).

<wsGroup>

        <name>aStem:newGroup5</name>

        <idIndex>12345</idIndex>

        ...

      </wsGroup>

Has anyone done this already? Is there a better way to do this?

Andre

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Andre Daniels 

Sr. Developer/Security Analyst

University of California Santa Cruz

(831) 459-1980

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Jeffrey Williams 

Identity Engineer
Identity & Access Services
https://its.uncg.edu

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Andre Daniels 

Sr. Developer/Security Analyst

University of California Santa Cruz

(831) 459-1980