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. Why? Craig > 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!
