[Using Sakai] admin lite function

Beth Kirschner bkirschn at umich.edu
Wed Jan 11 05:27:52 PST 2012


This is really cool Bryan -- I can see us using this in addition to the AdminLite tool for different use cases :-)

- Beth

On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Bryan Holladay wrote:

> If you want something sophisticated and flexible where you can create
> hierarchies, assign as multiple roles, hide tools, ect, check out:
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DAC/Delegated+Access+Tool
> 
> If you want a simple junior admin like role, you just need to create a
> role in the !site.helper realm (name it something like "junior admin")
> and give it the permissions you want.  Then just add user's to that
> realm to give those user's those permissions throughout all sites in
> Sakai.  Next, create a Junior Admin site and create a role for that
> site that is the exact name as the site.helper role you created (ie.
> "junior admin"), then enroll them in that site as that role.  Do not
> add the "Become User" tool to that site since they can become a super
> admin.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Anders Nordkvist
> <anders.nordqvist at his.se> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We are interesting in some kind of function that will provide a lite admin
>> tool for administrators at our University. They should be able to access all
>> the courses that is available and we don’t want to give them a full admin
>> role. I have checked around for some kind of tool that can do this and I
>> found a Jira called “admin Lite”,
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/UMICH-232 but it is depending on
>> several kernel changes and if I can avoid this I would be pleased. Does
>> anyone know of a tool or a fix that can achive the above mentioned?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In the jira, https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-708, Beth Kirschner
>> comments  that there is a way to admin lite functionality without a kernel
>> change but it doesn’t say how?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards Anders Nordkvist
>> 
>> University of Skövde
>> 
>> Sweden
>> 
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