[Digikam-users] How do I set up Digikam for network access by multiple users ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:33 -0400, Brano wrote:
> On 09/16/2009 12:42 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 18:15 +0200, Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> >    
> >>>>> I've read digikam having a development version using mysql instead
> >>>>> sqlite, so sooner or later we'll have multiuser environment.
> >>>>>            
> >>>> Thanks for sharing that.   I'm going go hold off on setting up my multi
> >>>> user system until that ships.
> >>>>          
> >>> You may be waiting a long time ...better review with dev team what's in
> >>> developement and due dates.
> >>> Mysql support does not imply multi user access management will be
> >>> implemented day one (if at all).
> >>>        
> >> MySQL support is on our schedule for the coding sprint this October/November.
> >> Multi-user support, concurrent access, including locking or conflic
> >> resolution, is a more difficult story.
> >>      
> > Speaking from experience, its really easy to handle multi user access...
> > create 2 access types.  First one is RW, second one is read only.  The
> > first person to log into the db gets RW.  All others are read only.
> > Tell the user what connection they have when they log in.  If they don't
> > like what they get, they can log out and kick off the person who has RW
> > access.
> >
> > It will work for 80% of the users needs.  Most people (me) just want to
> > be able to put the pictures and db on a networked drive and be able to
> > access it from a variety of computers.  Having concurrent editing access
> > for multiple users would be nice to have, but just having remote access
> > would be a good start, even if only one person has rw privileges.
> >
> > The team could implement concurrent multi user editing access at a later
> > date.
> >
> > I also like the idea of having a read only user permission because I
> > don't want everyone being able to edit the pictures and tags, especially
> > deleting raw files or jpegs if there is only one of them.  I would like
> > to see DigiKam use a trash setup (either from the OS or within itself)
> > for this very reason.
> >
> > Imagine having 20,000 tagged images and a user who doesn't understand
> > things removes a couple tags from the tag list when they meant to remove
> > them from a few pictures.   Hours and hours of work is lost in 30
> > seconds. :shudder:
> >
> >    
> Well, no offense, but how about daily backups? It's not that other users 
> can screw up your collection, you can as easily do a wrong click and 
> have things gone for good. Not speaking of very possible HDD failure.
> Disks are so cheap today, photos are priceless, invest to a secondary 
> HDD and do some kind of rsync daily.
> (I personally have all my valuables (photos) on RAID-5 disks rsyncing to 
> backup disk daily)

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  That is why Unix OSes
have file and directory permissions.

And when might I figure out that this error happened and how much time
might have elapsed between when it happens and when I figure it out and
how much work might have been done in that time.