> On Aug 30, 2015, at 3:10 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30 August 2015 at 03:17, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Craig L Russell >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sweet! >>> >>> Now maybe if you have access to getent passwd <id> you could add that to >>> the columns displayed by public_names. >> >> Hmm. I do and don't. >> >> [rubys@whimsy-vm:~]$ getent passwd clr >> clr:*:2018:2018:Craig L Russell:/home/clr:/usr/local/bin/bash >> >> [rubys@minotaur:~]$getent passwd clr >> clr:*:2018:2018:Craig L. Russell:/home/clr:/usr/local/bin/bash >> >>> We are almost at the bottom turtle. >> >> There seems to be more turtles. >> >>> Craig >> >> - Sam Ruby >> >> P.S. For those just tuning in, Craig added a '.' after his middle >> initial on mino. His change seems to be persistent but not >> propagated. > > Obviously the passwords on mino are taken from LDAP. > Notice the second getent field which is "*"; that tells the system to > go elsewhere for authentication. > Therefore there is no need to export changes from LDAP to the passwd file. > Or vice-versa.
From this, I conclude that 1. any local changes anyone made using chfn are strictly local and not visible from current whimsy tooling 2. LDAP cn is essentially write-once (during object creation) and from then, read-only If we amend iclas.txt to include the ea and virtual folks there is no longer a need for whimsy to use LDAP cn. We should give folks a way to request that their public name be changed by contacting secretary. Craig > So if such sync is wanted, it would have to be added. > > <snip/> Craig L Russell Architect, Oracle http://db.apache.org/jdo 408 276-5638 mailto:[email protected] P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
