[LON-CAPA-admin] Odd User Management

[Stefan Bisitz]

> The User Management behaves quite odd.
> 
> Aim:
> User ABC with home server domain "nds" is an author and wants to grant
> the role "Co-Author" to a user on the server with domain "fhwf".

> [...]

> - Login as user ABC on nds (no other role than Author is granted to 
> thisuser)
> - "Create a user or modify the roles and privileges of a user"
> - "username" "contains" "bisitz" "in institutional directory"
> - "Domain/institution to search:" -> "fhwf"
> - Click "Search"

> [...]

> 7) How is it finally possible to grant "Co-Author" privileges to a 
> user on another domain?
> 

Uh, "in this domain" does NOT mean my home server's domain but the
domain which is selected in the drop down box below! With the select "in
this domain" and "nds" I can find the user and grant the privileges.


H. K. Ng wrote:
> Institutional directory works if you have customized the
> localenroll.pm module to search the data base of your institution. It
> is a new feature available from 2.5. If bisitz is already a loncapa
> user, then searching in the domain will find the user.

This seems to be the reason why I cannot find the user with the
selection "in institutional directory". Thanks for this hint.
I thought that this selection will search both, instituational and
domain directory. "Institution" and "Institutional Directory" are not
such connected as I have originally thought.

Hopefully we will find answers to the rest of the questions, too.

Stefan Bisitz