Thank you Marco. I think you're right and this should work pretty well and 
still be safe given good passwords. From what I read in the book 
<http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/09/access-control> this 
feature is well-done in web2py. Thank you.

On Saturday, December 13, 2014 11:15:08 PM UTC-5, marco mansilla wrote:
>
> El Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:37:01 -0800 (PST) 
> sergenikov <[email protected] <javascript:>> escribió: 
>
> > Hello web2py community, 
> > 
> > I recently hosted a website with hostgator shared hosting. The setup 
> > was ok, somewhat tricky, but ok. However, I found out too late that 
> > hostgator's shared hosting does not support ssh tunneling. I was 
> > wondering what would be suggestions for managing the db without this. 
> > I am mainly looking at giving the client functionality to fetch db 
> > contents and add/remove stuff from db. Is this possible without a lot 
> > of python scripting or am I screwed to write a lot of python code for 
> > this? 
> > 
> > Note: I know there is an option to disable security, but that seems 
> > too risky. Not sure I want to do that unless someone has a suggestion 
> > how to do it in a hacky way. 
> > 
> > Thank you in advance, community. 
> > 
>
> First thing that comes to my mind is SQLFORM.grid or SQLFORM.smartgrid, 
> this and RBAC should be enough for an app db administration over the 
> web, not much hacky or "complex" to rely on ssh. 
>
> hope it helps. 
>
> Marco. 
>

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