Hi Prabhakaran,
Yes, we considered manual submission of people who can archive, however, unless
it is a very small group it is a tedious task.
You can use open source shibboleth http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ or
LDAP http://www.openldap.org/
for access control. We are using LDAP with DSpace. http://dspace.mona.uwi.edu/
MY university uses LDAP for access control, but the way how it was configured
for the university does not allow separating groups such as academics,
researchers, and graduate students etc. The division is made by department,
not but category.
Anyone who is in LDAP can login, using University ID and password, but DSpace
will prompt ‘you are not authorized to archive’. However, once login, the name
appears in e-people directory if the person is in LDAP. Then either the DSpace
administrator or the administrator for each community to approve the name or
reject it. Until that approval is given no person can archive items. Second
option is better as it is expected that community person will know who is
entitled to archive than the general administrator
I am not the technical person, so I cannot tell you how to do it. I am sure you
can figure that out. If you need the contact I can put you in touch with the
person, who is no longer with us. If not I would have forwarded the letter to
him. I am certain he will be happy to help if you need it.
Hope this can help
Swarna Bandara
Head, Medical Library
VHL National Coordinator
ETD/DSpace Project Coordinator, Mona Campus
University of the West Indies,
Mona Campus
Kingston 7, Jamaica (W.I.)
Telephone: (876) 927-1073
Fax: (876) 970-0819
UWI Library’s website:
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/library/index.html<https://xchg3.uwimona.edu.jm/owa/redir.aspx?C=8fdd5509b2504d5ea44a950e8d08343b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.mona.uwi.edu%2flibrary%2findex.html>
UWI Mona Campus Website:
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/<https://xchg3.uwimona.edu.jm/owa/redir.aspx?C=8fdd5509b2504d5ea44a950e8d08343b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.mona.uwi.edu%2f>
UWI Website:
http://www.uwi.edu/<https://xchg3.uwimona.edu.jm/owa/redir.aspx?C=8fdd5509b2504d5ea44a950e8d08343b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.uwi.edu%2f>
From: Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 8:08 AM
To: Prabhakaran S
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] How to disable anonymous access?
I do not have any practice with restricting access – I hope someone else will
be able to help answer this question for you. I do know there are a few
different ways to do it.
A basic explanation follows of how this works in the XMLUI, version 1.5.2.
Create a community for the department
When you “edit community” there’s a link to “Edit authorization policies” or
you can set them when you create the community.
The authorization policies page should have a line with three columns: ID,
Action, and Group.
I believe the default is for each community to have the READ action be assigned
to Group Anonymous. This basically means that Anonymous can read anything in
the collection. You can change this so that only certain users can read
anything in the collection.
To do this, you’ll have to create a custom group of users. There are automated
ways to do this, or you can do it manually.
(To do it manually, you have to have each user register as a DSpace user, and
then go to the Access Control area on the right and click the Groups link to
create a new group of those users. This would be very tedious and prone to
error, so I hope someone can explain a better way to do it).
Anyway – back to the authorization policies -- If you click on READ, you’ll see
that you can select a different group that is allowed to READ. If you manually
created a new group, you can select it here.
That’s a very basic, elementary explanation of how this works – and it’s all I
know! Hope it helps you a little.
Alice
From: Prabhakaran S [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; Platt, Alice
Subject: How to disable anonymous access?
Hi All,
Can I disable anonymous access totally and have only authenticated users to use
the digital library?
How can this be achieved?
Scenario – A medical college wants to digitize the library of one of the
departments to be hosted over intranet and internet. Access should only be
given to students and professors of that particular department and not to the
public. The site should prompt for username and password to login in and then
browse the contents of the digital library.
Regards,
Prabhakaran S
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