Automatically share LDAP groups

The patches are still missing even after the Jira fix earlier. So am closing, unless somebody steps up and wants to see this remain open / has updated patches...

Anybody have an updated patch for this ticket? The current attachments are all dead links at the moment, strange.

This would be extremely helpful to have implemented; maybe it can be scheduled for 3.8.2?

Removing the 'fix version' for all unresolved issues that were scheduled for version 7.8.2. We're releasing this version today - the remaining issues should be rescheduled later.

Jonathan,

Thanks for the feedback. I hadn't taken into consideration the fact that you may not want all existing groups shared. A couple thoughts:

1) Once you turn it on and have it set to only share unshared groups, you couldn't revert the sharing.

2) Perhaps we could use a "niceness" flag. Example: groups.autoshare_nice="true" would mean "only shared groups that haven't already been shared". groups.autoshare_nice="false" would mean "set all groups to share exactly the same, overriding any existing values." Insert a few if-statements into my patch, and we're good.

My naming of the property is debatable. Maybe "autoshare_force" would make more sense. Either way, you get the idea.

One other thing I would like to see eventually would be a way to set these parameters from the admin interface instead of having to manually add system properties. If you're bored, feel free to take a stab at that.

Thanks for your work, Jonathan. It's good to see someone else interested in this feature.