On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Craig L Russell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I just now updated iclas.txt to include Melissa Warnkin with the entry:
>
> ea:Melissa Warnkin:Melissa Warnkin:[email protected]:President;Executive 
> Assistant
>
> But the roster https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committer/ea continued to 
> rely on LDAP for the name.

The cron job that runs svn up runs every 15 minutes.  Log of the last
run can be found here:

https://whimsy.apache.org/logs/update-svn

Now that it has run, Melissa's name is taken from iclas.txt.

> Why?
>
> Craig

- Sam Ruby

>> On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Craig L Russell <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>
> Craig L Russell
> Architect, Oracle
> http://db.apache.org/jdo
> 408 276-5638 mailto:[email protected]
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
>

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