[Building Sakai] synchronize ldap with sakai [Scanned]

[John Norman]

I agree that this is better than two independent places to maintain your user information, but I saw a recent variation that I liked. It was for a Facebook app and it linked to a business system that also maintained user data. Since the owners of the system could not control what was done in Facebook and didn't want to rely on Facebook data and Facebook did not allow for synchronisation in the way you describe below, the system still maintained independent user data but used Facebook APIs to see when the data varied between the systems. It issued a dismissable notification of data variation when a difference was found.

I thought it was a neat solution.

John

On 7 Aug 2010, at 00:35, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Users from LDAP aren't created in Sakai and you don't need them to be - and it's actually better that they aren't. 
> 
> The first time a user is added to a site or logs in to Sakai, an entry is created in the SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP table which ensures that user has a UUID related to their login ID (jsmith26). This user is then treated as a normal user in Sakai, with the exception of being able to edit their name,email and password as that is stored in LDAP.
> 
> This is a better approach as it means things don't get out of sync. See also here:
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/~steve.swinsburg/LDAP+in+Sakai+2.5
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:27 AM, justice rabapane <justicer at vut.ac.za> wrote:
> I have groups created in LDAP. I straggling to import them to my sakai project. How do i get a USER from ldap to be created in sakai?
> 
>  
> Justice
> 
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