[Building Sakai] Searching users created by external authority

[David Wafula]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
Thanks for the info. Well, this is our own little custom LDAP-based provider
(involves searching across multiple LDAP servers etc). I know there is
jldap, but its not being flexible enough for our needs now. I can verify the
user is for sure being created.
I dont understand though what you exactly meant by "their mapping will
automatically be set the first time their entry is accessed, either by
adding them to a site or by logging in".  I mean, isn't

userDirectoryService.addUser() enough ..or there is more to be done to make
the user searchable ? As it stands login works fine, and even the profile is
correctly populated with the minimal info provided from LDAP. Just i can't
find the user on searching.

I also have:


public boolean getUser(UserEdit edit) {
        System.out.println("Get User called " + edit);
        if (edit == null) {
            return false;
        }

        StaffLDAP staffLDAP = new StaffLDAP(staffLDAPHost, staffSearchBase,
staffDN, ldapPassword);
        LDAPUser user = staffLDAP.getLDAPUser(edit.getEid());

        if (user == null) {
            return false;
        }
        edit.setFirstName(user.getGivenname());
        edit.setLastName(user.getSurname());
        edit.setEmail(user.getEmail());
        edit.setType("staff");

        return true;

    } // getUser


As for tomcat 7...it runs fairly ok, except for these in logs:

SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml file at
jndi:/localhost/imsblti/WEB-INF/web.xml
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Duplicate filter name [sakai.request]
...
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.sakaiproject.dav.DavRealm
...

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml addFilter

Am just using this tomcat 7 for the fun of it, but in prod we will probably
use 5.5.
-- 
David Wafula
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