fly said:Well, it sounds like you almost have it ready. When will it be done?
I'm having the meeting to explain that they bought shit in a few minuites.
I have the system where it actually does a real authtication against the ldap and has no problems importing all of my users into their sql database. That part works great. But I now have 43000 people in there with no rights. They all can login in fine but can't do anything.
Macromedia says just assign everyone rights manually. But you can only do 75 people at a time through their interface. 43000 users changed 75 at a time would take forever and that 43000 changes week to week. So that it's not a viable opition. After a long long working my way through the support tiers they now say the other opition is build a XML API and put that in some java code or coldfusion to process the placing people in permisssion groups and run that weekly. No, they weren't sure how to actually do that.
All the data is stored in a MSSQL database so I'm grabbing a person I know that is good with SQL and I'm going to just make something that changes the data directly and not their fucked up solution. Macromedia said not to go this route becuase all the support peolple don't know sql. I don't know sql either but it makes the most sense. At least more sense then the XML that I don't know inside of some coldfusion controled app of which I also don't know.
In the middle of me testing some stuff I get a call from a professor in south florida that is already using the software in his classes and why does some stuff work the way it does. The department that was suppose to just glance at it and get a feel for it has told people that it's in production, which it is not to be yet, and manually given random people rights to do some stuff. I'm meeting with them later to rip them some new assholes.
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