[ckan-dev] Public API key from test-user.

Nigel Babu nigel.babu at okfn.org
Tue Dec 17 08:59:26 UTC 2013


Hi Henrik,

I'm not sure this is a good idea. Publishing the API key would let them
change everything a normal user has permissions for, like changing the
user's password or email.

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On 10 December 2013 17:17, Henrik Aagaard Sørensen <BU1G at tmf.kk.dk> wrote:

> Should there be any conserns publishing an API-key from a simple user
> without any admin-rights etc.?
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> I would like to public various example on use of the API, this would
> include the API-key in Javascript-files.
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