[Dspace-tech] About DSpace and LDAP synchronization

2008-06-24 Thread Rafael Henkin
Hi, We've been using Dspace with LDAP for some time, but just recently we noticed that we need to synchronize the fields, that is, if someone changes their email outside Dspace, it won't be reflected in Dspace. Has anyone solved this issue? Thanks,

Re: [Dspace-tech] About DSpace and LDAP synchronization

2008-06-24 Thread Elliot Metsger
We overwrite the fields that are mastered by our ldap servers each time a user logs in. Of course, the fields may become out of date over time if the user never logs in again. You could write some code to query ldap and manually synchronize the fields if that was a concern. Rafael Henkin

Re: [Dspace-tech] About DSpace and LDAP synchronization

2008-06-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
This is somewhere on my list of annoyances I'd like to find time to correct. The first time I looked at the LDAP authentication plugin, I asked myself why it bothers storing this stuff at all. }flame on{ Directory-enabled applications should depend on the directory. The only thing that DSpace