Read-Only GUI/Dashboard User

[KazuyaDarklight]

I feel its looking like no, but, is it possible to create a user who can view the server's GUI/Dashboard without being able to change things? Looking over the user creation UI, while I see I can deprive them of sudo at the terminal, it seems like overall any user I create would be another admin so far as the GUI is concerned.

The purpose of this user is just to give someone else the ability to check in on what the GUI is saying, look at settings etc, but not be able to accidently mess something up changing settings.

 

[Kris Moore]

Its something on our radar for sure, we've wanted to do that for a while, just will take time. Its a somewhat big ask :)

 

[ChurchillsLama]

I would also love to see this feature. Looking forward to its release.

 

[Whattteva]

Honestly, I'd be more happy with a login session length that's adjustable. It's super annoying to have to constantly login when I refresh a page.

 

[sretalla]

The purpose of this user is just to give someone else the ability to check in on what the GUI is saying, look at settings etc, but not be able to accidently mess something up changing settings.

Sounds to me like a need that's already served by TrueCommand...

 

[Whattteva]

Sounds to me like a need that's already served by TrueCommand...

Oh, that's news to me. I thought that's reserved for TrueNAS Enterprise clusters? I only have 1 instance, is it still recommended for such a simple home use case?

 

[sretalla]

Up to 50 disks is free to use, so I would say "have at it".

 

[Whattteva]

Up to 50 disks is free to use, so I would say "have at it".

So I just signed up, but I don't see any links to get my API key. Am I missing something?

 

[sretalla]

So I just signed up, but I don't see any links to get my API key. Am I missing something?

OK, I see what happened there... you signed up for the cloud service (not free).

I was talking about self-hosted TrueCommand... free for up to 50 disks in as many systems as you can make that work for.

 

[Whattteva]

OK, I see what happened there... you signed up for the cloud service (not free).

I was talking about self-hosted TrueCommand... free for up to 50 disks in as many systems as you can make that work for.

Ahh I see. I knew I was going to finally find some use for my TrueNAS SCALE experimental VM.

Sidebar: Why does this have to be a Docker image? I like to run my services on FreeBSD jails.

 

[Whattteva]

OK, I see what happened there... you signed up for the cloud service (not free).

I was talking about self-hosted TrueCommand... free for up to 50 disks in as many systems as you can make that work for.

I just tried it out and I see two issues with it:

1. Only allows me to login once. Next login after that just hangs after accepting credentials.
2. Logs me out immediately when I refresh. This is actually worse than the standalone TrueNAS.

Of course, I installed the community TrueCharts version, so it's possible that this issue doesn't exist if I do a proper Docker install? I'll do that some other time maybe. Any thoughts?

 

[sretalla]

Sidebar: Why does this have to be a Docker image? I like to run my services on FreeBSD jails.

They originally (maybe still) had it as a VM image (which was FreeBSD, I think in version 1), but I guess... DevOps and all that.

 

[sretalla]

Of course, I installed the community TrueCharts version, so it's possible that this issue doesn't exist if I do a proper Docker install? I'll do that some other time maybe. Any thoughts?

I have seen it be much more stable than that... not sure where exactly the instability comes from in your setup.

I do run it in a VM with plain docker, so maybe there's something to think about.

I did run with success for a bit with the TrueCharts app, so don't see why that would be problematic (although you need to have worked out the 80/443 port re-shift and need to specify that in the TrueCommand setup for that box itself ... why I moved it off there to avoid).

 

[Whattteva]

I have seen it be much more stable than that... not sure where exactly the instability comes from in your setup.

I do run it in a VM with plain docker, so maybe there's something to think about.

I did run with success for a bit with the TrueCharts app, so don't see why that would be problematic (although you need to have worked out the 80/443 port re-shift and need to specify that in the TrueCommand setup for that box itself ... why I moved it off there to avoid).

I just installed it natively on a Debian VM and it actually works now. Yeah, I think there's something wrong with the Truecharts Apps. Also, I wish when you hit "Start TrueNAS interface" it would automatically log you in also.

Another thing I learned since this is my first time using Docker is.... it sucks when compared to FreeBSD VNET jails. Can't even do DHCP without some kludge hacks which I'm not going to bother doing, so I just have to settle with port mappings. I do appreciate the ease of 1-line command deployables though. Though you could kinda' somewhat emulate this in FreeBSD with Bastille templates.