Anonymous access removal

[Manish Kumar]

Hi team, 

We are using dspace 7.6.1(dspace-backend as our code and dspace-ui as docker image) and deployed on gcp kubernetes. I have so many communities and inside that so many nested communities and collections, all are open to read by anonymous users, now we want to revoke read access from anonymous users for all existings and newly communities and collections.

I have found some suggestions from google that I would have to add below properties at dspace.cfg file.

# Disable anonymous read access to collections
webui.anonymous.read.collection = false

# Disable anonymous read access to communities
webui.anonymous.read.community = false

# Disable anonymous read access to items
webui.anonymous.read.item = false

I deploy with above properties but still not working for me. Please help me on same.

Thanks,

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi,

DSpace does not currently have a way to bulk remove anonymous access from every Community or Collection at once.   If you truly want **everything** to be hidden, you may want to consider putting your DSpace site behind a firewall.  DSpace is primarily built for open access, so it does assume that all Communities / Collections will be publicly available by default.  You can change this setting Community by Community or Collection by Collection, but there's no way to do so in a bulk manner (you'd have to edit each individually)

We do however have a bulk access management tool to change the permissions of individual Items.  https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Bulk+Access+Management   This can be used to quickly ensure that none of the content within your Communities or Collections can be downloaded or viewed while you work to modify the permissions of each Community and Collection.

Tim