Hello Alex, On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Alexander Bias <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > we set up Matterhorn 1.3 according to several pages in the 1.3 wiki and > the developer wiki across multiple servers. Admin, engage and worker > servers are running basically and we are trying to accomplish our first > recording now. There will be some questions in the next few days :) > > First of all, I don't understand how user management in Matterhorn works. > I found some settings in > /opt/matterhorn/felix/conf/security/config.properties about the default > user (admin / opencast) and I found some other configuration files, for > example /opt/matterhorn/felix/conf/security/mh_default_org.xml, but I > didn't find a possibility to create a new local Matterhorn backend user. > Could you please tell me where I can accomplish this, where the > documentation for user management is? Do I need to connect Matterhorn with > our LDAP server first? > User management in Matterhorn currently assumes some outside service like CAS or LDAP. There is a Users tab available where one can edit roles, but addition/deletion of users on this page is not implemented. > Second, I'm trying to connect a NCast PR-720-M capture device to the > Matterhorn servers. This capture device is sold to work with matterhorn. I > did copy the default capture agent config file (cp > /opt/matterhorn/felix/load/org.opencastproject.capture.agent-demo.cfg > /opt/matterhorn/felix/load/org.opencastproject.capture.agent-ncast.cfg) and > did change the connection details in this server. In the capture client > configuration interface, I have to provide a username and a password for > connecting to the Matterhorn server, but I don't know where to set this in > Matterhorn. Could you please tell me where I can set these credentials in > Matterhorn so that my capture device is able to connect? > No configuration of Capture Agents needs to be done on the Server. They simply log in with their credentials and say "Hello, I'm here" to the server using the REST API's. > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards > Alexander Bias > > University of Ulm > kiz information systems > Hank -- Hank Magnuski Direct: +1-408-541-9230 x205 Cell: +1-650-714-2409 Skype: hank.magnuski www.ncast.com
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