[Gmod-help] Re: [Gmod-gbrowse] separate private from public data sources

[Scott Cain]

Hi Zhiliang,

There is a section in the GBrowse configuration page on the wiki
authentication and authorization:

  http://gmod.org/wiki/CONFIGURE_HOWTO#Authentication_.26_Authorization

I think if you are concerned about keeping people out of certain
databases, this is the path you'd want to take.  Just keeping them off
the list is really security through obscurity, and if it really
matters, that is no security at all.

Scott


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Zhiliang Hu<hu at animalgenome.org> wrote:
> Dave - Thanks! (yes I should have said I have v. 1.69)
>
> Yes I was thinking about inserting some perl code in the conf file to check
> for IP or user, let it go or exit, yet to find how it may work.
>
> Looks like it's time to try out GBrowse 2 on our new server.
>
> Best regards,
> Zhiliang
>
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:57:32 -0400
>> From: "Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk" <gmodhelp at googlemail.com>
>> Reply-To: help at gmod.org
>> To: Elizabeth H. Scholl <scholl at pngg.org>
>> Cc: Zhiliang Hu <hu at animalgenome.org>, gmod-gbrowse at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Gmod-gbrowse] separate private from public data sources
>>
>> Hi Betsy, Zhiliang,
>> GBrowse 2 supports the functionality you want.  See
>>  http://gmod.org/wiki/GBrowse_2.0_HOWTO#Configured_Data_Source_Sections
>> As far as I know, GBrowse 1.x does not.  However, if you are (or have
>> someone who is) proficient at Apache configuration you could set it up
>> there, so that certain URLs are only accessable from certain IP addresses,
>> or require a login.
>> Dave C.
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Elizabeth H. Scholl
>> <scholl at pngg.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to piggy-back on this question, if you don't mind ;)
>>>
>>> First, to answer how to turn off the Data Source pull-down menu, you
>>> can add the line:
>>> show sources = 0
>>>
>>> HOWEVER, and this is where my question starts, if I go to my gbrowse
>>> base URL at:
>>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/gbrowse/abc
>>>
>>> where "abc" is anything that is NOT going to be a database in the
>>> system, I get the message:
>>> "
>>>
>>> The source named abc is invalid."
>>>
>>> And then I get a list of which databases are in the system (I assume
>>> based on the conf files in my configuration directory)
>>>
>>> So the question I have is "Is there a way to disable *this*?"
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Betsy
>>>
>>>
>>> At 09:12 AM 6/11/2009, Zhiliang Hu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We host several different databases under one Gbrowse installation.
>>>> We wish to run a few "private" GBrowse databases among other "public"
>>>> ones.  Is there a way to hide "Data Source" pull-down menu from all?
>>>> Would this be good enough to keep people from public GBrowse view to
>>>> see "other" data sources?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Zhiliang
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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