Amos,
In addition to setting the value of Default Authentication Type to
"Kerberos 5", what value do I enter for Default Authentication Argument?
Is it asking for name of our Kerberos Authenticated Domain (i.e., the
string "USASK.CA" that we had used before)?
Yes, if you set the Default Authentication type to Kerberos 5, you'll
need to enter your Kerberos realm: USASK.CA in the "Default
authentication argument" textbox in the domain config for "Default
authentication/language/timezone/portal/types".
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Thanks for the quick reply, Stuart.
It is preferred if users can authenticate using an institutional
username and password, and then populate user information (including
student/employee ID) automatically.
After reading your explanations, I agree that institutional login should be
the default and better way to go for existing Univ of Sask students who
already has an institutional account.
A question about setting the default authentication to Institutional Login:
DC's main menu
» Set domain configuration
» Default authentication/language/timezone/portal/types
In addition to setting the value of Default Authentication Type to
"Kerberos 5", what value do I enter for Default Authentication Argument?
Is it asking for name of our Kerberos Authenticated Domain (i.e., the
string "USASK.CA" that we had used before)?
Amos Lee
Math and Stats
Univ of Sask
On 17/05/2016 10:15 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:
Amos,
The subscribers to either the lon-capa-admin list, or the lon-capa-dev
list, are likely a better fit for your question, but since you posted
to the lon-capa-users list, I'll reply here.
I have just committed a change to the LON-CAPA source code repository
(CVS) with the change needed to support a user-supplied
"Student/Employee ID" in the case where a user self-creates a LON-CAPA
account using an e-mail address as username.
See:
http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-cvs/Week-of-Mon-20160516/027046.html
I will include that change in the 2.11.2 release which I'll be making
available ahead of this year's LON-CAPA conference (which happens next
week).
After that change, as domain coordinator you'll be able to select
"Student/Employee ID" as a required field in Main Menu > Set domain
configuration > Display ("Users self creating accounts checked") for
"Data provided by All users" in the "Self-creation with e-mail as
username" panel.
I would caution that if you allow users to provide their own
Student/Employee IDs when creating an account in LON-CAPA they may
enter an incorrect ID.
It is preferred if users can authenticate using an institutional
username and password, and then populate user information (including
student/employee ID) automatically. LON-CAPA supports that once you
have customized /home/httpd/lib/perl/localenroll.pm to establish a
conduit to institutional directory information (e.g., LDAP).
Of course it may be that in the case of a placement test, students
have not yet received institutional usernames (although they may have
been assigned student IDs).
I would also note that the domain configuration for users
self-creating accounts already includes the ability for a user to
provide his/her own "Student Employee ID" when self-creating an
account if the user authenticates using an institutional username and
password (i.e., either institutional log-in or Single Sign On), and no
directory information source is available.
It's one of the six checkboxes available in the "Institutional user
type (login/SSO self-creation/Information user can enter" panel in the
"Users self-creating accounts" domain configuration.
If, however, you are not using institutional authentication, but
allowing users to create their own accounts by providing an e-mail
address as username then in LON-CAPA 2.11.0 and 2.11.1 the choice of
(optional) fields which you could request from a user is as follows:
- First Name
- Last Name
- School/college/university
- School's web address
- School's city, state/province, country
- E-mail address at institution (if different)
in addition to the required fields:
- E-mail address to be used as username
- Password.
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting Amos Lee <l...@math.usask.ca>:
Hi,
When one clicks on "New User?" at Lon Capa's login screen, the subsequent
screen that appears will prompt the user to enter the following
personal data:
E-mail address*:
Password*:
Confirm password*:
First Name:
Last Name:
Is there a "no-coding-required" way to add a "Student/Employee ID" entry in
the mix as part of their data entry?
If coding is the only way to modify it, which perl module is responsible
for that? Can you offer us some coding tips and code fragments on how to
accomplish this?
We would like to explore having students of one particular class here
auto-create Lon Capa accounts themselves. The students would then
self-enroll in a Lon Capa course which would house a copy of our Math
Placement Test (with time slots and all that). Having the student's
university ID as part of his/her personal data would be vital.
Thanks,
Amos Lee
Math and Stats
Univ of Sask
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