[LON-CAPA-admin] Changing cloning rights

[H. K. Ng]

Hi Guy


> > I got the following message in autocreate.log for one of the
> > instructors who had requested a course. It looks like 2.5 checks for
> > cloning rights. How do I change the cloning right to anyone?
>
>Currently you can only allow specific users to get a cloned course.


How do I specify the users?


>http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5378
>
>Is the bug requesting making it easier to specifiy either a whole
>domain or anyone can clone the course.
>
> > The new course was not cloned from an existing course because the
> > course owner (xxx:fsu) does not have cloning rights in the existing
> > course (PHY xxxx).
>
>2.5.1 will (when this occurs) not make the new course at all. (Since
>a new empty course is likely to be unwanted.)
>
>Was this a clone of a fsu course to an fsu course? (Intra domain
>cloning should always be allowed.)

Yes, in physics we have team taught course but the instructor of 
record changes, so I like the instructors wo be able to clone another 
instructor's course.

-hk