--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2015/05/29 23:17:11 1.6 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2025/01/08 23:11:10 1.9 @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ \label{Domain_Configuration_Quotas} By default, each user in your domain can create blogs, a personal -information page, and store files in an individual portfolio space. +information page, store files in an individual portfolio space, set +rules on access by others to individual file(s) in the portfolio, and +set the time zone to use when showing open dates. due dates etc. Students can submit items from their portfolio to meet the requirements of assignments in their courses. -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, +You can choose to disable personal information pages, blogs, portfolios, +portfolio access by others, and/or time zone setting 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, +used to explicitly set availability of these tools for a particular user, that will override the corresponding settings determined by the user's affiliation. @@ -24,38 +27,3 @@ Default portfolio quotas which can be se 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. - -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. -