Grouper Working Group Notes of September 29, 2021

  Attending 

  • Chris Hyzer, Penn, Chair
  • Chad Redman, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Vivek Sachdiva, independent 
  •  Shilen Patel, Duke
  •  Emily Eisbruch, Internet2

Discussion

 


Grouper Training this week is going well 

  • Over 40 people in this week’s Grouper training
  • Enthusiastic group
  • Challenging to manage that many people
  • May use breakout rooms
  • Shilen will help with leading training today, along w Chris and Chad
  • Some participants in training want Grouper to be event based, No loader jobs, all batch sync
    • Need to provide them more info!
  • Type screen has a problem that is impacting training


 

InCommon and GEANT CAMP  

  • Monday Oct 4, 1pm to 1:50pm 
  • What's New with Grouper? Talk about new functionality in the Grouper product and the roadmap going forward.
  • Chris Hyzer 
  • Roadmap
  • Versioning
  • Provisioning
  • GSH Templates
  • Authentication work

 

Shilen will participate in a CAMP session on linking SSO systems, along with Rob C, Keith W 


 CURRENT WORK

 Vivek 

  • Screens and system for users to get public private keys 
  • Expiration
  • What IP address can access key
  • Close to done with this work, likely by end of this week
  • 2048 bit public private key
  • Store in database clear text
  • JWT with expiration 
  • Can do “decoration” , Keeping logs etc
  • but need to balance
    • Don’t want to spent too much time, need to get this work out there
  • Keys can have expiration date
  • Any Grouper sysadmin can add/delete public private key
  • There can be a group of people with authority to manage this
  • We should make a default group
  • If someone owns a local entity they should be allowed to make web service calls

 

Shilen 

  • Will work on JIRA around OU case issue, name field is a DN, membership field links to name field perhaps. Chris and Shilen will discuss.
  • When creating OUs , you specify attribute

 

Chad:

  • Focus on Grouper Training, happening this week
  • UNC Upgraded to 2.5.55 , with docker containers 
  • Upgrades take minutes instead of days
  • Enterprise Openshift and Redhat 7
  • Splunk
  • Looking forward to using GSH templates
    • Won’t need to use command line 

 

 

 

Chris:

 

 

 

Issue Roundup 

 

Jiras in past two weeks

 

 

Grouper Emails in past two weeks

 

 

Grouper wiki updates in past two weeks

 

  

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