--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2008/07/23 02:41:55 1.1 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2020/01/10 17:24:42 1.8 @@ -1,15 +1,89 @@ \label{Domain_Configuration_Quotas} -Each user in your domain will receive an individual portfolio space -to which files may be uploaded. Students can submit items from their -portfolio to meet the requirements of assignments in their courses. -The default quotas you set for users in your domain will be overridden -by any quota you set for individual users. +By default, each user in your domain can create blogs, a personal +information page, and store files in an individual portfolio space. +Students can submit items from their portfolio to meet the requirements +of assignments in their courses. -Default quotas (in Mb) can be set to vary by institutional affiliation, -as defined for your domain (e.g., Faculty, Adjunct, Staff, Student). +You can choose to disable personal information pages, blogs and/or portfolios +for different groups of users defined for your domain (e.g., Faculty, Adjunct, +Staff, Student). If the ``Modify User'' utility in User Management is +used to explicitly set availability of these tools for a particular user, +that will override the corresponding settings determined by the user's +affiliation. + +If you choose to enable portfolios, default quotas (in MB) +can similarly be set to vary by institutional affiliation. If a user is affiliated with more than one group, whichever default quota is largest for the different groups is the one which applies. -Institutional types need to be defined in a customized version of -\&inst\_usertypes() in the localenroll.pm module installed on the -primary server in your domain. If no types have been defined, then -a single default quota will apply for all users from the domain. +Institutional types are defined in the ``Institutional user types'' +section on the ``Default authentication, language, timezone, portal, types'' +screen. If no types have been defined, then a single default quota +will apply for all users from the domain. + +Default portfolio quotas which can be set for users in your domain +will be overridden by any quota you set for an individual user via: +the ``Modify User'' utility. + +Additional options for authoring spaces can be set for the various user +types: (a) whether webDAV is active, and (b) the default quota for Authoring Space. +These only come into effect for a particular user, when an author and/or one or +more co-author roles have been assigned to a user to provide access to one or more +Authoring Spaces. + +WebDAV allows a user to connect to an Authoring Space in the same way as removable +media, and to use their own laptop/desktop computer's file management tools and +applications to move, edit and delete files. See: ``WebDAV access to Authoring Space'' +section in the Authoring manual for more information. + +Note: webDAV usage requires Apache with SSL to be running on the library server. +The user will be prompted to enter his/her username (this will be the LON-CAPA username +or username,domain if the access is for a co-author with a domain different +to that of the author), and the user's LON-CAPA password. webDAV also requires that the +dav and dav\_fs modules are enabled in Apache. The way those are enabled depends on the +Linux distro (command line access required). +the Apache config. + +\begin{itemize} + +\item CentOS, Red Hat and Scientific Linux (6 and earlier) + +The required LoadModule lines are included in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf +file added by install.pl run to prepare a server for installation of LON-CAPA. + +\item CentOS, Red Hat and Scientific Linux 7 + +The required LoadModule lines are in the default /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-dav.conf +file added when the httpd rpm is installed. + +\item Ubuntu + +Use the commands: a2enmod dav and a2enmod dav\_fs to enable the modules. + +\item SLES + +The APACHE\_MODULES entry in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 contains the list of modules to be +loaded. If dav and dav\_fs are not present they should be added to the list. + +\end{itemize} + +(Reload Apache after making any changes to the Apache configuration). + +If you use Single Sign On to authenticate LON-CAPA users in your domain, then to +support webDAV you also need to support authentication by LON-CAPA for your users. +This can achieved if the authentication type stored internally for each SSO user is +set to either (a) Kerberos 5 (with a parameter -- the appropriate Kerberos realm +set), or (b) Local Authentication, with /home/httpd/lib/perl/localauth.pm +customized to verify username and password (e.g., via LDAP). If a user can log-in +to LON-CAPA via the URL /adm/login (thereby by-passing SSO), then the same user will +also be able to authenticate using a WebDAV client (assuming other requirements are +met, i.e., SSL, WebDAV access enabled, active author or co-author role). + +The requirement to obsolete published files before moving or deleting them, which applies to +the regular web browser-based management of Authoring Space, also applies in the webDAV +environment. Moving and deleting directories in the webDAV environment is prohibited if +the directory, or any (nested) subdirectory contains a non-obsolete published resource. + +Given the ability to easily delete unpublished content in webDAV (without the ability to +reverse the deletion), it is important that authors assigned webDAV access are especially +careful when working in the webDAV environment. +