Leslaw,
It would be great for you to add a bug to the Matterhorn jira about this issue, 
if you haven't already.
And, I apologize, but the Users tab may not be available in 1.3. 

Judy
 
On May 30, 2012, at 7:49 AM, Dr Leslaw Zieleznik wrote:

> Thank you Judy, it's very useful.
> 
> I'd only add one observation to the out-of-the-box roles behavior, but expect 
> who played with the Series must know about it.
> The thing is when you edit the default Series and then re-start the system, 
> all editing will be cleared or reset to the default setup (but any new Series 
> created by admin will stay intact). 
> This is because of the setup in the config. properties
>           org.opencastproject.security.demo.loadusers = true
> 
> Therefore to re-tain your changes in Series, this must set to it 'false' 
> immediate after the first re-boot.
> I don't whether there is any better solution?
> 
>> As far as UI goes, the one thing we do have is the "Users" tab. Though 
>> hidden, it offers the basic ability to assign roles to users. To unhide it, 
>> set prop.adminui.i18n_tab_users.enable=true in the configuration file. 
> 
> I did try this in the config. properties (on rel 1.3) , but still I can't see 
> the Users tab?
> 
> Leslaw
> 
> 
> 
> On May 29, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Judy Stern wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 28, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Rubén Pérez wrote:
>> 
>>> 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. 
>>> 
>> 
>> It *is* pretty straightforward, but it should still be documented. There was 
>> a ticket for this (MH-7787) which, though begun (there's text describing the 
>> basic functionality and the out-of-the-box roles), was never completed (we 
>> needed somebody to explain how to add users and roles). 
>> I've now added the text I wrote to the 1.2 FAQ (the text was too long so I 
>> made it a child page 
>> <http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MHDOC/Explanation+of+View+Access+Privileges>,
>>  adding a link (as an example) to the USask documentation of their LDAP 
>> integration. It's still missing information about how to assign roles in the 
>> database. Also, if anyone knows of the right place to put documentation like 
>> this (that's not really development documentation and not really only 
>> release documentation), let me know. 
>> 
>> As far as UI goes, the one thing we do have is the "Users" tab. Though 
>> hidden, it offers the basic ability to assign roles to users. To unhide it, 
>> set prop.adminui.i18n_tab_users.enable=true in the configuration file. 
>> 
>> 
>> Judy
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