Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Francesco Cepparo <>]

In any folder or in their own “home” folder?

What do you mean by "home" folder? By the way, apart from privileges, is there any difference between folders and groups?

 

If someone creates a group, can someone else edit it or manage it?

Yes, we want to be able to move privileges from one user to another.

 

Can anyone create a folder anywhere?

It depends on the meaning of folder in Grouper's authorization model. In principle, yes.

 

Are your users generally trusted, i.e. do you trust that a user wont delete a folder that someone else is using?

No, users are not generally trusted, but will be granted privileges on subfolders. We will be the root administrators so a user will never be able to delete a folder that he has no grant upon.

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

From: Francesco Cepparo [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 10:50 AM
To: Chris Hyzer
Cc:
Subject: Re: [grouper-users] How to let Subjects manage groups themselves?

 

We need Grouper subjects to be able to manage and define groups and their members.

 

 

2015-08-21 15:56 GMT+02:00 Chris Hyzer <>:

Can you explain in more detail what you are looking for?  Do you want each user to have their own folder to manage?

 

Thanks,

Chris

From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Francesco Cepparo
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 6:53 AM
To:
Subject: [grouper-users] How to let Subjects manage groups themselves?

 

Hello everyone,

at our institution we have the following use case and we were wondering whether Grouper can fit our needs.

 

Basically, we need Grouper subjects to somehow be able to manage groups and permissions themselves, but we don't want to give them full permissions on the grouper administration interface. Is this something that we can accomplish with Grouper? Are we forced to create a custom web interface for users that makes use of the Grouper API?

 

Thank you in advance.