[Building Sakai] Authentication problem

[Robert Long]

Don't forget some of the contrib tools still use the EID instead of the internal ID. JForum comes to mind...

--Bob

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Robert E. Long, MA
Saginaw Valley State University
Open Source Programmer / Analyst
Math / Education Technology Instructor
M.A. Instructional Technology
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On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:15 AM, David Horwitz wrote:

> Hi Ciellie,
> 
> The information you're looking for is in SAKAI_USER_ID map in the
> databases. This simply is a map table that maps the human readable
> enterprise ids [e.g. jblogs) to the internal Sakai ids.
> 
> So something like:
> 
> update SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP set eid='000001' where eid='jblogs';
> 
> should work (backup, test on dev server etc). As would editing the user
> object via the UserDirectoryService, at least for internal users I'm not
> sure it would work for provided users.
> 
> David
> 
> On 01/19/2011 08:40 AM, Ciellie Jansen van Vuuren wrote:
>> Hallo
>> 
>> I need some advice. We authenticate against LDAP, with, what we call NetworkID's
>> eg itbcjjvv now we want to change to numbers for userID's. The problem now is
>> when a lecturer logs in Sakai with his number, he can't see the sites he
>> previously created, with the old networkID. Is there some API I can use to
>> change the networkid's in the database to numbers or do I need to write a script
>> to find and replace the networkID with the number in a mysql dump file ?
>> 
>> Thanx for the help
>> Ciellie
>> 
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