LDAP sync incomplete

[kohlhase]

I have synced the GenCS students via https://panta.kwarc.info/ldap-course-sync/664, but I only get 44 students in https://panta.kwarc.info/group/node/664/admin/people?state=All&uid=&page=1. But it should be 53+me+3TAs=57.
I am not sure what happened, could you have a look? I need to resolve this urgently.

[kohlhase]

The same problem is with the GenICT 2014 course, only in a much more drastic way.

[nickles-lee]

I recall Dominik and Tom having issues getting their OpenJUB API to successfully sync LDAP entries from Jacobs Servers.

Commit that apparently fixed things: https://github.com/tkw1536/openjub-api/commit/142dc9c61a1ca198962a5e91a5fdf275760677cd
Discussion of the bug: OpenJUB/openjub-api-legacy#4

This might be a similar problem

[mihaifieraru]

Only students whose registrations are accepted via CampusNet are going to LDAP and then to Panta.
Are all the 53 students accepted in the course on CampusNet?

[kohlhase]

yes, they are, and moreover, they show up in jgrader, so they must be in the LDAP.

[mihaifieraru]

The reason why the students don't appear in the LDAP list is because they have never logged in on panta.kwarc.info, so their account does not exist. Once they log in with CAMPUSNET credentials, their account will be generated and the system will add them to the list of accounts to be sync.

This is not a very good design :(

[tkw1536]

@fierarufmihai You should just have a login-as feature (masquerade as LDAP-user) for admin(s). It is what I ended up doing that for the USG forum. It just needs SOME credentials to access LDAP. It can just grab the data from someone else then. Yes, it is hacky, but it will work.

@nickles-lee The LDAP syncing problems resulted from too many simultanious LDAP connections (was copying everything async to the local DB).