[OOD-users] Group based access to menu items

[Franz, Eric]

Shawn,

You can modify directory access permissions on the apps you want to restrict users to access. At OSC we often will do this by creating a supplemental group for a specific app, chown the app directory to be that group, and chmod 750 that directory. Then, to give users access to that app, we add that user to the supplemental group. Another option is to use ACLs on the app directory.

Since the dashboard run’s as the user, the dashboard menus will only be populated with links to apps that the user has read and execute access to. The menu is built by the dashboard reading the list of directories under /var/www/ood/apps/sys and reading the manifest.yml files in each of those directories to determine the category and subcategory, which indicates which navbar menu the app link will appear.

Thanks,
Eric

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Eric Franz, Senior Web & Interface App Engineer
Ohio Supercomputer Center
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Columbus, OH 43212
email: efranz at osc.edu
 

On 9/17/17, 11:29 PM, "OOD-users on behalf of Doughty, Shawn" <ood-users-bounces+efranz=osc.edu at lists.osc.edu on behalf of Shawn.Doughty at tufts.edu> wrote:

    Hi, is there a way to control what groups can see what menu items? Most sites are fairly open but at the same time I would like to have some utilities or reports only available to certain users while others should not even see it.
    
    Thanks,
    
    
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