ckanext-userautoaddgroup

CKAN plugin to add new users to top(parent) groups automatically.

This plugin implements the user_create action to add users to an existing parent group with a given role (both specified in the configuration - See Config Settings below).

This code is adjusted from: ´´https://github.com/aptivate/ckanext-userautoadd´´

Requirements

Tested with CKAN v2.9

Installation

To install ckanext-userautoadd:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
   

2. Install the ckanext-userautoadd Python package into your virtual environment:

   pip install ckanext-userautoaddgroup
   

3. Add userautoaddgroup to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

4. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload
   

Config Settings

# The organization to which new users are added
ckan.userautoaddgroup.group_name_1 = [name1]
ckan.userautoaddgroup.group_name_2 = [name2]
ckan.userautoaddgroup.group_name_3 = [name3]

# The role the new users will have
ckan.userautoaddgroup.group_role = [editor / admin]

# The name of the admin
ckan.userautoaddgroup.admin_username = [admin user name]

Background

This code is inspired by the "ckanext-userautoadd": https://github.com/aptivate/ckanext-userautoadd

License

This ckan extension is available as free and open source and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation.