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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