[Building Sakai] Searching users created by external authority

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi,

External users don't show up in the Admin users tool because there isn't really a way of showing them all since there could be thousands in the external provider.

Another point to note is that you don't actually have to make that UDS call to have users from LDAP created in Sakai, their mapping will automatically be set the first time their entry is accessed, either by adding them to a site or by logging in.

Also, if you do make that call, are you sure it is working? You can't create a user that has the same eid as a provided account so I'd expect that call to fail.

Off topic, are you really using Tomcat 7? How is it going? What was the build and setup like? Sakai has only really been tested on Tomcat 5.5.

cheers,
Steve


On 06/06/2011, at 7:35 PM, David Wafula wrote:

> Hi all,
> Am creating a user on login (if first time) .. successfully as follows:
> 
>  userDirectoryService.addUser(null, eid,lDAPUser.getGivenname(), lDAPUser.getSurname(), lDAPUser.getEmail(), null,type, null);
> 
> However, when i log in as admin,under 'Users' i cannot find this user on search. 
> 
> And of course the note"Note: users defined by an external user authority are not listed here."
> 
> How/where should be searching this user from.
> 
> 
> Sakai 2.8.0, Tomcat 7.0.14.
> 
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