Hi!
That's the most-asked question we get too. "Can you restrict the
viewing rights?"
Some videos of training situations just cannot be out there in the
open (scenes involving minors for example, or medical videos with real
patients).
Also, many users feel more at ease testing the capture system, or
trying it out for a few lectures if the distribution of the resulting
material can be secured.
You have to remember that we're bringing automated (ie Cheap, as in
our case labor costs way more than any hardware imaginable) recording
possibilities to teachers that perhaps aren't that used to being in
front of a camera.
For pilot installations, such a light-weight authentication solution
would be just the thing. LDAP etc can be set up later, or in the
background on secondary system while the pilot install is used to
gather valuable knowhow about the more hands-on parts of such
wonderful system.
Tero K.
Quoting "Hank Magnuski" <[email protected]>:
One of the first questions I get asked by prospective customers for
Matterhorn is "Can you restrict viewing rights to selected users or groups?"
The question comes up ALL the time.
Well of course you can in Matterhorn as the underlying security framework
supports Users and Roles etc.
But how do you show that to a prospect and make it easy to try out in a
pilot installation? Configuring LDAP or CAS is not the answer.
And limiting the demo to some rigid set of names "Student1, Student 2, ... ,
is not the answer either.
This type of page allows easy security setup for early adopters and pilot
programs without a lot of hassle. I think it's a "must-have" feature. It
also lets people easily experiment with the use of Users and Roles so they
can understand these features before they need to spec exact details for
their LDAP servers.
I'm less concerned about admin rights for this page. Anybody is fine with
me.
Hank
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Judy Stern <[email protected]> wrote:
Two questions:
How important is it to those on this list to make the Users tab (see
screenshot below) available sooner rather than later, even if it's somewhat
unfriendly? (Seems unlikely that we'd be able to improve it much from the
proof of concept Josh has created, unless Rudiger or others have resources
to help in the next few days.) Any details you can provide about how you
intend to use this feature would be helpful.
And, when the Users tab is available, is it okay if it is available to
anybody who can access the admin UI, or does you need it to be restricted to
just the superadmin (or some other set of restricted roles)?
Keep in mind that (as I understand it, after talking to Adam H. who had a
conversation with Josh) we will likely be turning on the feature to assign
manage privileges (per Series) as in [1] and [2], allowing users in other
roles to have access to the admin UI; they'd be able to see only series and
recordings for which they've been granted privileges, but they'd still be
able to see all the tabs that the superadmin would see ((unless we did more
work).
Judy
[1] design:
http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Permission+Management+on+Series+UI+for+1.3
[2] actual UI at some point before we removed second column of checkboxes
http://opencast.jira.com/secure/attachment/12183/Screen+shot+2011-05-24+at+6.04.05+PM.png
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