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Automatic assignment of license to freshly imported user?

Hi, I'm on v1.0.1.1 so if any of what I describe below is available in
2.0 - please feel free to put me straight.

We use LDAP (IBM Bluepages) for user authentication & role assignment. I
like the autosync feature which automatically imports new users from the
LDAP groups to Jazz. However, there is no automatic license assignment
for freshly imported users. I'd rather this happened automatically than
wait until the user tries to use the Jazz server and gets a failure.

Given the large number of users we have and the amount of change in the
JazzUsers group, this isn't feasible to do manually. So I've written a
command line tool with the JazzPlainJavaClient libraries to assign
floating-developer licenses to new members of the JazzUsers group. I've
thought about running this tool overnight just after the automatic
import happens, but this is a problem: I need to provide my password to
the tool, in the clear, in my crontab - to stop others seeing my
password, I need to ensure I do it on a machine I know only I have
access to - root account and all.

I would prefer to be able to specify a 'new user receives license(s)'
policy in the Jazz admin webui, to have the effect of assigning one (or
more) licenses to a new user imported either manually or by the
automatic process. Is this being considered? I'm happy to open a Story.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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