04-03-19-webct-affiliation.txt


Date: 2004 March 19
Time: 8:00 to 8:30 AM

Attending:
	Frank Swasey
	Gregg MacKinnon
	Justin Henry
	Mike Kessler (Visitor)
	Steve Cavrak
	

1. Introduction : Statement of the problem

   The goal is to generate netID's for UVM
   affiliates who are not faculty, staff, or
   students. Programs needing such IDs are

	- the Extension Service 
	- the College of Medicine for FAHC
	  employees 
	- the College of Education 
	- special UVM programs that serve
	  other colleges through consortium needs

   What seems best is to build a feed for LDAP so
   that LDAP can create the netID and password in
   Kerberos.

2. Webct "Needs"

   WebCT has a very simple model ...

	- First Name
	- Last Name
	- WebCT ID       --> NetID
	- WebCT Password --> NetPassword


   Additional information that would be handy
   includes

	- email address
	- netid of person generating the 
	  affiliation.


3. LDAP "Needs"

   LDAP runs a multistep from 1 AM to 4 AM.

   LDAP's key identifies are

	keys are based on
	-- SSN
	-- Banner
	-- Catcard Number
	-- PsuedoSSN -- i.e. an SSN with an
	unused prefix (800 ... 900 ...)

   LDAP can accept input from

	- ldif
	- csv

4. Proposed Solution

   Justin will build a process that provides an
   LDAP feed. This will contain

	- JID (A psuedoSSN)
	- First Name
	- Last Name
	- dummyID
	- dummyPASSWORD

   This process will leave the file in a place
   that Frank can access it

   LDAP will run

   Frank will provide Justin a file that contains
	
	- JID
	- First Name
	- Last Name
	- NetID
	- dummyPASSWORD

5. We will begin testing this for Carolyn Elliot's
   course.