Oops, I put it i the wrong alphabetical location. Seems to work now.

Craig

> On Aug 30, 2015, at 12:30 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.
> 
> 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!
> 

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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