Grouper Call of March 13, 2024

Attending 

  • Chris Hyzer, Penn, Chair
  • Chad Redmond, Unicon
  • Jim Beard, Unicon
  • Vivek Sachdiva, independent
  • Shilen Patel, Duke
  • Carey Black, Purdue

  • Liam Hoekenga, UMich

  • Gail Lift, UMich

  • Kellen Murphy, Univ of Virginia

  • Chris Hubing, Internet2

  • Drew Aschenbrener, Internet2

  • Emily Eisbruch, Internet2

This Grouper call was 30 minutes long, instead of the usual 90 minutes, due to Grouper training.


Administrivia

InCommon Basecamp is June 3-7, 2024 (online only)

  • https://incommon.org/academy/camp-meetings/basecamp/
  • Chris Hyzer is doing an advanced Grouper presentation
  •   We  need a speaker(s) for this, anyone interested:
    • If you are interested, please contact  Chris Hubing
    • Perhaps use slide deck from last year
    • Hoping for a community member to present, not Internet2 staff

Foundations in Access & Grouping - Thursday, June 6 @ 12:15 - 1:00 pm ET

Join this session for an exploration of Access & Grouping in higher education, where we unpack the business concept and practical applications. Learn key terms such as access, groups, and roles, and discover basic and complex workflows for managing access permissions and group memberships. Gain insights into different access architectures and real-world examples of implementation within universities.

Learning Objectives for the Attendees:

1) Understand access & grouping in context of the reference architecture + key terms including roles, role-based access, and attribute-based access

2) See basic workflows for adding individuals to groups in higher education settings, highlighting membership management processes.

3) Understand how to navigate more complex workflows involving group calculations, demonstrating advanced access management techniques.

4) See/understand basic access architectures commonly found in higher ed, providing context for implementing access and grouping concepts effectively

5) Get insights into grouping and authorization strategies in a hybrid cloud environment (e.g. local directory + Azure/AWS/GCP)


Grouper Training is ongoing this week (March 12-15, 2024) https://incommon.org/academy/grouper-school/

Current Work

Vivek

  • Rules screen is done
  •    Vivek and Chris will work together on rules screens to finalize

  • Chad found issue w Grouper provisioner, now fixed
    •    If not selecting all groups and entities from a membership object provisioner (google) and someone added a user or membership at target, Grouper was not able to  link back to the right group
    • Now working on deleting folders should also delete rules, this is in progress
      https://todos.internet2.edu/browse/GRP-5336 (when deleting groups/folders, check for rules, and let user know, and delete those rules too)

Shilen

Chris

  • Chris and Chad working on Grouper Training, happening this week
  • Two new training modules on ABAC  are being presented 
  • Hope to go thru read only / view only sysadmin groups to be sure they have access they need
  • Logging issues in v5 
  • Used to log to pipes
  • Didn’t totally switch over
  • If you get latest Grouper v 5.8.6 (not yet announced) the tomcat logs will go to standard error, 
  • If logging to files it won’t go to standard errors unless you turn that on

  • Cert path issue got fixed

  • This feature was requested by Bert and added: Grouper GSH script daemon loader from Google sheet

  • In latest Grouper v4, there are no known issues
  • Grouper v5 is pretty stable



Issue Round Up


JIRAS in past 2 weeks



Grouper Wiki Updates


Next Grouper Call:  Wed. March 27, 2024

 

 

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