Photos in the 7.1.x GAL

[Rich Graves <rgraves@carleton.edu>]

I feel I need to do something positive to justify the space-wasting "People Search" box.

I can see several ways to get better campus directory integration:

1) Overload the whole thing with a zimlet and/or skin

2) Hack at the jsp's, or something, to overload just the photo call (we are fairly liberal with photos, basically referer+campus source ip address is enough to get pictures of anyone but students with FERPA directory opt-outs)

3) Use Zimbra's GAL sync to get our existing jpegPhoto's into Zimbra. This appears to be impossible right now.

4) Stop scheduled GAL syncs. Run zmgsautil forceSync, immediately followed by a non-Zimbra script to suck jpegPhoto's out of our LDAP and shove them into the galsync account.

#4 looks most promising to me. Has anyone else been down one of these roads, with code and war stories to share?
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Rich Graves http://claimid.com/rcgraves
Carleton.edu Sr UNIX and Security Admin
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