[OOD-users] Disable File Downloads?

[Shawn Doughty]

Disabling file upload as a separate option from disabling download would be
useful.

"Besides disabling file download, do you also want to disable file upload?"

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Franz, Eric <efranz at osc.edu> wrote:

> Shawn,
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> I opened this issue https://github.com/OSC/ood-fileexplorer/issues/178 to
> track this feature request.
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> Besides disabling file download, do you also want to disable file upload?
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> Thanks,
>
> Eric
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>
>
> ---
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> Eric Franz, Senior Web & Interface App Engineer
>
> Ohio Supercomputer Center
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> An Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) Member
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> 1224 Kinnear Road
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> Columbus, OH 43212
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> *From: *OOD-users <ood-users-bounces+efranz=osc.edu at lists.osc.edu> on
> behalf of Shawn Doughty <shawn.doughty at tufts.edu>
> *Reply-To: *User support mailing list for Open OnDemand <
> ood-users at lists.osc.edu>
> *Date: *Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:39 PM
> *To: *User support mailing list for Open OnDemand <ood-users at lists.osc.edu
> >
> *Subject: *Re: [OOD-users] Disable File Downloads?
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> Hi,
>
> Let me explain further. I have a small cluster apart from our main HPC
> cluster that requires its own login and compute nodes. Requirements dictate
> (or prefer) that I block any ability for users to download files "out of
> the system" so I'll be blocking outgoing traffic, scp, etc and everyone
> will be using OOD.
>
> If there is no built-in variable to enable or disable the Download button
> one could just locate it in the html and remove the button. Users could of
> course still use the file explorer API and cut and paste the full path to a
> file, hit enter and the browser will ask to download.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Nicklas, Jeremy <jnicklas at osc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Shawn,
>
>
>
> There is no configuration option to disable file downloads from the Files
> App. You would have to fork the project and make edits to the code
> directly. Although by completely disabling file downloading from OnDemand
> you also in-turn lose the ability to view and edit files.
>
>
>
> Is there a particular reason you wouldn't want users to be able to access
> files through OnDemand? There may be alternative solutions if we had a
> better understanding of the requirements.
>
>
>
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> *Jeremy Nicklas*
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> *From:* OOD-users [ood-users-bounces at lists.osc.edu] on behalf of Shawn
> Doughty [shawn.doughty at tufts.edu]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 11, 2018 7:50 PM
> *To:* User support mailing list for Open OnDemand
> *Subject:* [OOD-users] Disable File Downloads?
>
> Is it possible to disable file downloads from the file explorer? I'm
> experimenting with this for a somewhat secure mini-cluster where outside
> ssh, scp is disabled. Users will have to go thru OOD in order to get a
> shell, launch aps, etc and I would like to disable downloading.
>
>
> If not possible directly thru the app, as a temporary solution I guess I
> could just block that portion of the API url in the web server...
>
> --
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> Shawn G. Doughty
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> --
>
> Shawn G. Doughty
> Senior Research Technology Specialist, Research Technology
> Tufts Technology Services (TTS)
> 16 Dearborn Road
> Somerville, MA 02144
> 617-627-5462
> http://it.tufts.edu/
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Shawn G. Doughty
Senior Research Technology Specialist, Research Technology
Tufts Technology Services (TTS)
16 Dearborn Road
Somerville, MA 02144
617-627-5462
http://it.tufts.edu/
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