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Re: [EP-tech] how to disable actions in eprints

Hi Jonathan,

The Apache redirect should be fine.  Make sure this works for both HTTP
and HTTPS, as I have been caught out by that before.  I would still
recommend setting the cgi/login:page_layout phrase to be empty just in
case.

Yuri's suggestion of making the database read-only might be OK but for
me there are too many things that I worry it might break, so I would
avoid this unless absolutely necessary.

Regards

David Newman


On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 15:13 +0100, Jonathan NORRIS wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Thank you for the information. My original idea was to disable the
> (conventional) login somehow but was not sure how to handle existing
> login sessions. Here's what I think I will do:
>
> apache redirect the login route two a page giving information as to
> why
> this is disabled
> truncate the loginticket table
> switch off the indexer and cronjobs
>
> Thanks again for your help,
> Jonathan Norris
> IST Austria
>
> On 12/6/18 15:07, Newman D.R. wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > There are several things I would do:
> >
> > 1. Disable the indexer from the admin menu.
> >
> > 1. Modify the phrase cgi/login:page_layout (by default in
> > /opt/eprints3/lib/lan/en/phrases/system.xml, you can override at an
> > archive level) to remove the login form.
> >
> > 2. Truncate (i.e. delete all records from) the loginticket table to
> > remove any current logged in sessions.
> >
> > 4. Edit the EPrints user's crontab to make sure you disable any
> > scripts
> > that could modify publications data/metadata.
> >
> > This advice assumes you are using conventional login (not
> > Shibboleth/ADFS or similar).  Also the access table in the database
> > will still get records added to it.  However, it sounds like this
> > would
> > not be an issue, as it would not effect the data/metadata of the
> > publication records.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > David Newman
> >
> > On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 14:47 +0100, Jonathan NORRIS via Eprints-tech
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I need to disable user actions within eprints for a period of
> > > time
> > > but
> > > still allow access to it because of existing citations and DOIs
> > > that
> > > link back to it. We need to stop any sort of interaction that
> > > would
> > > change the data inside, including adding new records, updating
> > > existing
> > > and deleting records.
> > >
> > > Would anyone have any advice on how I may achieve this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jonathan Norris
> > > IST Austria
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