Hi Garren,
I guess that depends on how sensitive the data in there would be. It's
not planned to store any passwords for remote servers, so the user would
need to enter those upon each replication. So in the worst case a user
would only see bookmarked databases on a remote server but would not be
able to access them. Given the fact that the same behavior is present on
a local machine I would assume this to be OK.
From what I can tell with my limited knowledge of the internals it's
currently not possible to secure specific documents and would probably
cause some interference with replication as well.
So my solution would be to simply not store any sensitive there.
Regards,
Markus
On 14.07.2016 12:19, Garren Smith wrote:
Hi Markus,
I like the idea of a Fauxton system database. I think we could store some
useful things in there. But how would we manage security and permissions on
the database?
Would one user be able to see bookmarks for another use when viewing that
database?
Cheers
Garren
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Markus Fischböck <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi everyone!
I'm currently working on a new replicator add-on for the Fauxton UI. One
of the features I'd like to implement is a bookmark manager where a user
can create and save bookmarks in order to have them for quick access,
when selecting hosts/databases during replication. This saves the user
the hastle to remember the full URL to any source/target database he/she
want's to replicate from.
I had a discussion lately with Robert Kowalski where to store those
bookmarks and I had a couple of ideas in mind:
a) Saving the bookmarks on the local storage of the browser => this is
the least desired option, since the bookmarks would only be available on
the current browser.
b) Saving the bookmarks in the users document in the _user Database =>
Not really nice, since we would pollute the user object with data from
Fauxton. I guess it's not supposed to work that way.
c) Having a fauxton related system database (e.g. _fauxton) where we can
store UI related data. For now this would be bookmarks, but could come
in handy for other purposes like UI settings and that a like.
I wanted to ask, if it would be possible (and desireable) to add such a
system database for the Fauxton project.
Kind Regards,
Markus
