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Re: [Question #200730]: Protecting dashboards from users

 

Question #200730 on Graphite changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/200730

    Status: Open => Answered

Nicholas Leskiw proposed the following answer:
I make regular backups of the sqlite.DB file...

Francois Mikus <question200730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Question #200730 on Graphite changed:
>https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/200730
>
>Description changed to:
>Graphite users may be novices and could easily delete, re-arrange
>dashboards that were created.
>
>I understand some of the original intent to have Graphite not deal with
>user classes (public, user, admin); I use public in a general way to
>describe users that do not have write access in the previous sentence,
>but could still be authorized by another external mechanism.
>
>There will always be a need for user classes, if simply to help make
>users and administrators jobs easier.
>
>Edit: Okay, I am a donut. I had an sqlite database problem which was why
>my events and user management was not working...
>
>I understand also, that pickle and raw sockets are not the safest means
>of communicating. My question is more on the usability standpoint and
>not really from a security/interity standpoint.
>
>Is there a means to protect some dashboards so that they are read-only.
>So users can clone them if they wish, but only admins could modify them.
>How are others coping with protecting dashboards from fat fingered
>users??
>
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