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thomasp85 / shinyFiles

A shiny extension for server side file access
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Options to disable creating/renaming directories #143

Closed dipterix closed 4 years ago

dipterix commented 4 years ago

I want to use shinyFiles on a server as directory chooser. However, I don't want users to accidentally rename/create folders. Is there any option to disable these functions?

vnijs commented 4 years ago

If you don't want users to create new directories you should be able to do that by setting (linux) user permissions on the server before users have access. This would require admin privileges on the server. shinyFiles will just work with the permissions you have set.

dipterix commented 4 years ago

It'll be nice if we could do that on the server. However, in many cases we don't have control on file permission or the file needs to be writable, just not writable by shinyFiles. Now that shinyFiles respect Linux file permission, maybe we could just override that permission when launching instance?

vnijs commented 4 years ago

Happy to look at a PR for this feature.

dipterix commented 4 years ago

PR submitted.