Re: disable create server

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 6:11 PM Pavy Manuel <Manuel(dot)Pavy(at)cnes(dot)fr> wrote:

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> Thank you all.
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> I try to deploy pgadmin4 on my company but I want to manage the
> connections (server in pgadmin) the users can create.
> So, I've found the line 84 of
> pgadmin/dashboard/templates/dashboard/welcome_dashboard.html to disable the
> link :
> <a href="#" onclick="pgAdmin.Dashboard.add_new_server()">
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> pgAdmin saves server list per user.
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> You may need to keep that in mind.
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> Yes I’m aware of that
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> It seems like a reasonable request to me - for example, to stop students
> adding random servers to a shared instance of pgAdmin that they're only
> supposed to be using for coursework.
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> Agreed.
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> My need is different : I deploy pgadmin4 in an ansible role which deploy
> the following (inside the [ ] ) :
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> User ----> [ Apache ---> pgadmin ----> pgbouncer ] -----> postgresql
> backend
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> And I have a script for adding a server for a specific user which create a
> pool and add the server tuple in the sqlite3 db.
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> The benefit is :
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> - I can serialize the connections (some users open many, many tabs)
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> - users who do not close their connections are not a problem (thanks to
> the pgbouncer timeout)
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> - I can reserve some connection to the production chain
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> - I can monitor the pool
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> Since yesterday, I’ve found a (ugly) solution : in the
> ./pgadmin/static/js/generated/browser_nodes.js, I deactivate the Server
> action.
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> But the pretty way should be to create a dedicated profile (in addition of
> administrator and user).
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Please create a feature request @
https://redmine.postgresql.org/projects/pgadmin4 .

Thanks,
Khushboo

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> Manuel Pavy
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