[Building Sakai] Sakai Web Services Plugin (sakai-axis)

[Norton, Shane]

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for your response. I entirely agree and was expecting the response of fix the LDAP issue as this indicates the risk of other issues.... Unfortunately this is all managed outside of our organisation and the response has been a flat out refusal to resolve this.

The "org.sakaiproject.user.api.UserDirectoryService.addUser" method seems to perform what I believe I am after. I am only concerned by having a null password passed to this method that this would allow login as an internal account. Potentially I could generate a uuid and set that as the password...

When I started building the Apache Axis plugin (jws) we were running Sakai 2.8. We are now running Sakai 10  and I have noticed that there is a sakai-ws running Apache CXF. I would like to also know if there are any plans to drop Apache Axis any future Sakai versions, and if so, what timeframe?

Regards,
Shane

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From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:55 PM
To: Norton, Shane
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai Web Services Plugin (sakai-axis)
Hi Shane,
You are probably better off sorting out the LDAP provisioning and/or allow your script to be able to run as a nightly process to sync up any new accounts that have been found in LDAP (ie late enrolments etc). Even if the user has a map entry, a lookup is likely to fail since they wont be able to be found in LDAP which could cause other problems.
cheers,
Steve


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Norton, Shane <shane.norton1 at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
Hi all,

I am writing a web services plugin to make students members of sites and site groups.  Unfortunately our Sakai instance that is bound ok to LDAP is getting messages prior to the LDAP account being provisioned.

What I am wanting to do is to create the sakai_user_id_map entry and grant access to this entry prior to the LDAP user being provisioned.

At this stage I am using org.sakaiproject.user.api.UserDirectoryService.addUser(null, <Username>, null , null, null, null, "registered", null);

I have noticed that this creates an entry also in the sakai_user table and I am concerned that this may create an internal account with a null password.

Please advise.

Regards
Shane


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