Re: [REQADM-Users-L] caching userinfo - disable-able?. I

[Matthew W. <mw...@tt...>]

okay... so if I manually edit an entry in cdis and up the "last modified
time", run reqadm-nightly, and re-look up the user I should see new
information, yes?

-mtw 

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:08:38AM -0800, Steve Willoughby (st...@ic...) wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Matthew White wrote:
> > thought I had it... now I don't.
> 
> Pretty much.  I'll simplify slightly.
> 
> usertable, cdis, password file/NIS, etc. all get loaded into the
> REQADM database when you install REQADM and periodically (reqadm-nightly)
> thereafter.  This is your active customer base.
> 
> REQADM gets a request from someone who isn't in the REQADM database.
> 
> What happens next depends on how we got the person's ticket.  If we already
> have an RUID, REQADM will just query userinfo to get the info for the
> user's account.
> 
> If we only have an email address, it will try LDAP to get a RUID from the
> mail address and then ask userinfo.
> 
> If we can't get an RUID, REQADM will invent one in the "temporary RUID"
> number range, fill in a few of the profile fields and proceed.
> 
> > SO, if I want to change someone's information, I need to add that person
> > to the cdis file and make sure their modification date is later than
> > when the user was fist stuffed into the dbase.  Then after the nightly
> > cron script is run, that user's info will be update.
> 
> Right, except that the date should be later than the last update to the
> user's REQADM profile (either from a previous update via cron or the
> person editing their profile from within REQADM).
> 
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Matthew White
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