id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason 1805076818,I_kwDOBm6k_c5rl0lS,2102,API tokens with view-table but not view-database/view-instance cannot access the table,9599,closed,0,9599,,20,2023-07-14T15:34:27Z,2023-08-29T16:32:36Z,2023-08-29T16:32:35Z,OWNER,,"> Spotted a problem while working on this: if you grant a token access to view table for a specific table but don't also grant view database and view instance permissions, that token is useless. > > This was a deliberate design decision in Datasette - it's documented on https://docs.datasette.io/en/1.0a2/authentication.html#access-permissions-in-metadata > >> If a user cannot access a specific database, they will not be able to access tables, views or queries within that database. If a user cannot access the instance they will not be able to access any of the databases, tables, views or queries. > > I'm now second-guessing if this was a good decision. _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-tokens/issues/7#issuecomment-1636031702_ ",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2102/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed 1485757511,I_kwDOBm6k_c5YjtxH,1939,register_permissions(datasette) plugin hook,9599,closed,0,,8711695,20,2022-12-09T01:33:25Z,2022-12-13T02:07:50Z,2022-12-13T02:05:56Z,OWNER,,"A plugin hook that adds more named permissions to the list which is initially populated here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/e539c1c024bc62d88df91d9107cbe37e7f0fe55f/datasette/permissions.py#L1-L19 Originally imagined this hook in this comment: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1881#issuecomment-1301639370 I need this for a few reasons: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1636 - Needs it in order to validate that permissions defined in `metadata.json` are set in the right place (don't set an instance permissions at table level for example) - https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1855 - Needs it to be able to register additional abbreviations for use in signed cookies - And for validation when you use `datasette create-token` and pass in extra permissions - The https://latest.datasette.io/-/permissions debug interface needs it to add extra debug options to the `