Hello, We're considering using DSpace for our researchers who work with videos and other data. We'll mainly use DSpace as a frontend for metadata in the database. I have a couple of questions.
1. Is it possible to authenticate with Kerberos? If so, is it also possible to autoregister a user in a group on the first logon based on unix filegroups or AD? I know that it's possible with LDAP authentication and AD, but we can't use LDAP as authentication for AD, only Kerberos. The best option for us would be to authenticate with Kerberos and autoregister users in groups by using unix filegroups. All users will not be in the same group and one user might be a member of several groups. Is this possible? 2. I want the files in DSpace to be useable by other software as well. For example a video in DSpace should not have to be downloaded before the user can analyze it with a software. DSpace will only be used as a frontend to the database for metadata purposes and we don't want to store the files as a 38-digit internal ID, unless we have to. We want the users to be able to see the same files on disk as they see in dspace. This means that the dspace groups and the filegroups has to be the same. I've looked at "Registering Bitstreams via Simple Archive Format" and if I understand it correctly it might be a solution. It's very important that these files are not available for everyone on disk. The "dspace" user should be the owner of the file, and a filegroup should give some users access to the file on disk for analyzing. Typically the dspace groups should correspond with the filegroups. Is this doable with DSpace? Please let me know if I need to clarify anything. -- Vegard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
