[Deploying Sakai] [Building Sakai] Keeping access to graduated student's data

[David Adams]

Would it be possible to populate SAKAI_USER with the relevant data prior to
the deprovisioning from LDAP?

David Adams
Director, Systems Integration and Support
Virginia Tech Learning Technologies


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Whilst not ideal, msgcntr stores the user's name with a post, possibly for
> this reason (ie if students are removed) - gradebook could do the same and
> fall back to that info if the user is not available - there would need to
> be a way to fully purge a user from a site though.
>
> Whilst I agree with Sam in that you could leave the users in LDAP and just
> disable their ability to login/be added to new sites, this can potentially
> be at odds with the normal deprovisioning practice of many institutions, so
> a Sakai specific solution might be required.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> We are looking for suggestions and ideas on how other schools are
>>> dealing with this.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you still want to access information related to graduated users, they
>> should continue to live in your central user directory, LDAP.
>>
>>
>>
>>> If you keep graduated students in the ldap, do you
>>> see any performance issues as the ldap database grows? How large is your
>>> ldap database (i.e., number of students)?
>>
>>
>> I'm sure there are institutions and organizations with many millions of
>> user records in their LDAP database.  Unless your institution is storing
>> large amounts of binary data for each LDAP user, the records are extremely
>> small.  LDAP was built for this use case, with its highly configurable
>> structure and containers. I can't think of any better solution that
>> continuing to store the users in LDAP.
>>
>> --Sam
>>
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