Support disabling Auth0 #967
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Are you looking for a real email address here or just a different fake/placeholder one?
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Probably a different one. This email address appears in the Notes section of each feed.
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Would it be worth it to add a status message in this pane if AUTH0_DISABLED is true, that says something along the lines of "You're running datatools without user authentication enabled. Features such as user management, account management and feed activity watching are unavailable"
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Thoughts @miles-grant-ibigroup?
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The homepage might be a better place? Could add a warning above the recent activity section?
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I added the message to the home page, above Recent Activity (969af57)
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devbefore they can be merged tomaster)Description
This PR allows running the datatools UI without having to log in using Auth0.
When Auth0 is disabled:
The PR is based on https://github.com/ibi-group/datatools-ui/tree/auth-disable but simplifies the permission checks by creating an admin user on loading.
Rough edges caused by not knowing what panes will be available until after a few render passes - I think that can be addressed in a subsequent PR:
To disable Auth0, insert a line with
DISABLE_AUTH: trueinenv.ymlfor both frontend and backend configurations.No other changes are needed on the backend.
This PR might address #962.