I mistakenly sent this reply to Leslaw only. Sorry for the double mail.

2012/5/28 Rubén Pérez <[email protected]>

> Dear Leslaw,
>
> Yes, the access is done via a CAS system for the "Campus do Mar" project,
> which is fed by an LDAP, also dedicated to the project. However the access
> is not controlled via Matterhorn, since the front-end you are seeing is not
> Matterhorn, but PuMuKIT, our own home-grown video management system.
>
> There are, indeed, ways to restrict the users who can see specific Series
> / Videos, but I can't find documentation in the wiki about that. However,
> it's pretty straightforward --you can assign view/edit permissions to
> specific roles for series and/or individual videos, and then assign the
> same permissions to users. I'm afraid there's not UI for user management as
> far as I know, and you should assign such roles directly in the database.
>
> Re. the users present in Matterhorn, I believe you can configure MH to
> work with LDAP and/or CAS systems, and there are a section in the wiki that
> deals with that. Also, you can find further information in several email
> threads in this very mail list.
>
> If you want to know a little more about PuMuKIT and Matterhorn, please
> keep reading:
>
> We have been using PuMuKIT for quite some years, before Matterhorn
> appeared (in fact I believe that's the reason why UVigo was involved in the
> Matterhorn project from the beginning), and we still use it as a front-end.
> PuMuKIT is still far better than Matterhorn when it comes to manage your
> media library and cataloguing your videos, and also when  customizing your
> web site look-and-feel, though I guess this will change with time, so we
> haven't moved completely to Matterhorn yet.
>
> This does not mean that we are not placing our bets on Matterhorn, but we
> have designed a "transition plan" from PuMuKIT to Matterhorn and now we are
> in the intermediate state when the frontend is still PuMuKIT but the
> backend processing is done (mostly) via Matterhorn. We designed an
> integration module in PuMuKIT that allows us to import the Matterhorn
> recordings into PuMuKIT and use an embedded version of the Engage player
> for the dual-stream videos. I can give you more information if you are
> interested, just ask :)
>
>
> Best regards
> Rubén
>
> 2012/5/28 Dr Leslaw Zieleznik <[email protected]>
>
>>
>> Dear Ruben,
>>
>> I am not sure whether you are the right person to ask?
>>
>> What I am interested to know, is how do you control access to recorded
>> videos?
>> This is because some of videos published on the
>> http://tv.campusdomar.es/library/all   are  marked as 'video privado'
>> and access to it is protected by an id/password, and majority of videos are
>> with the open access.
>>
>> Is this protected by the university ldap or by the MH users internal date
>> base and so by the series mechanism?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Leslaw
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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