Stream: troubleshooting

Topic: permissions for non-institutional downloaders

jamie jamison (Feb 03 2026 at 23:22):

I'm trying to work out permissions for a faculty member who wants his dataset to be publicly available but users to  need request access before downloading.

UCLA Dataverse is limited to UC login.  Is there a way to set up a non-institutional ID similar to the "authenticated-users"  ID?

Jamie Jamison
UCLA Dataverse

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 04 2026 at 15:06):

As you say, the "request access" feature requires an account.

These people that will be requesting access... what sort of account will they have? The options are remote (Shibboleth, OAuth, OIDC) or builtin.

Within OAuth there's ORCID, Microsoft, GitHub, and Google: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/installation/oauth2.html

With OIDC, it's whatever your OIDC provider supports.

Does that help?

jamie jamison (Feb 09 2026 at 19:52):

The basic problem is that UCLA Dataverse is UCLA affiliated only. For non-ucla I have to manually create an account. I'm not sure I can manage what he wants on UCLA's dataverse. But this at least clarifies whats possible.

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 09 2026 at 19:52):

Yeah, it's a pain to create accounts manually.

Last updated: Apr 03 2026 at 06:08 UTC