How to Disable Download for Jupyterhub

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How do you disable download in jupyterhub? We are deploying our app on openshift kubernete and we want to disable download base on a configuration value set in our environment. The jupyterhub download should be disabled base on our env setting when we start up our jupyterhub. Can we implement it inside jupyterhub_config.py? If so how? Thanks

[manics]

Have you seen this previous discussion?

[Request for Implementations] Disabling downloads from a JupyterHub

“How do I disable downloading files from JupyterHub?” is an extremely common question, especially for folks working with sensitive data. This is impossible to do in the absolute sense - if someone can see data on a screen, they can copy paste it. However, there are ways to make it harder, and I want to list some of those ideas here. It’s important that these don’t affect users at all when they’re doing ‘regular’ data analysis work - security at the cost of usability forces people to find holes …

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hello @manics!

I’ve checked. It is not the method that i’m looking for.

Thanks!

[manics]

The hub and singleuser servers are decoupled. The hub launches the singleuser container, but almost everything else is proxied straight through to that container. You’ll therefore need to disable downloads in that container, not in the hub.