Judy,

I have just add the bug description and the w/o to MH jira.

Thanks,
Leslaw


On May 30, 2012, at 11:55 PM, Judy Stern wrote:

> 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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