[Building Sakai] adding provided users as local users

[John Bush]

funny you say that, as that is our backup idea.  The one thing I'm
worried about with that solution is that users that haven't
authenticated or accessed via a getUser(s) call wouldn't exist.  I'm
not sure how bad a problem that is, I'm worried there might be bits of
code that might not like users suddenly disappearing.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
> John,
>
> If you want a backup in case LDAP system is unavailable, one approach would be to add a table under the control of your provider.  Each time sakai calls the provider about a user, your provider would update the entry in the table.  Then if LDAP failed, it would just use the info from that table.  Just an idea.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:43 PM, John Bush wrote:
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>> I'm exploring ways to add provided users as local users in order to
>> provide a failover in the case of say an ldap system being down.  But
>> if you try to add a user that is provided, you'll get a
>> UserAlreadyDefinedException.  If you try to edit a provided user
>> you'll get a UserNotDefinedException.  Does anyone else do this?  If
>> the users were created locally first this wouldn't be an issue, but I
>> can't assure that will be that case.
>>
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