Horst Karstens asked 11 months ago
Page 86-87 of “Smart Home” book deals about making the Node red dashboard secure by username and Password.I worked throught all steps, copying as described username and passcode, but when I try to save the changes to the node-red settings.js file, it sais I do not have permissions to do that.
[ Error writing /home/horaika/.node-red/settings.js: Permission denied ]
or
[ File ‘/home/horaika/.node-red/settings.js’ is unwritable ]
How can I access/write changes to the settings.js File ?
Sara Santos Staff answered 11 months ago
Hi.
I’m sorry for the delay in my response.
Can you try running the commands starting with “sudo”?
Regards,
Sara
Horst Karstens answered 11 months ago
Hello Sara,
thx for reply ! It worked now with a leading “sudo”, but I face another problem now.
I worked down the change procedure as described in the book, copy and paste the user name an pass-string as described into httpNodeAuth, removed the two dashes at the beginning of the line, saved the setting file and did reboot the pi.
When I start the Node Red Editor with 192…….:1880 it ask for my username and password and the editor starts as expected. When openening another browser window witjh 192…….:1880/ui a login window appears as expected, but my user name und password, which works fine with the editor, does not work wit the dashboard. I cannot longer start the dashboard at all.
I did walk through the complete change process 3 times now to ensure I didn´t make anything wrong during the copy and paste steps, but the result is allways the same, dashboard cannot be entered anylonger.
Any suggestion what to do ?
Kind regards
Horst
Sara Santos Staff answered 11 months ago
Hi.
I’m not sure what might be wrong.
I’m sharing these two links that might be useful to help you troubleshoot the issue.
https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/runtime/securing-node-red
https://discourse.nodered.org/t/allow-the-user-to-change-his-her-password-for-dashboard-ui/22214/22
Regards,
Sara