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Can the login details be passed from shinyproxy to shiny app?
I want to write sql query to filter content and display the data that pertains to that user alone.
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shinyapps.io is secure-by-design. Each Shiny application runs in its own protected environment and access is always SSL encrypted. Standard and Professional plans offer user authentication, preventing anonymous visitors from being able to access your applications.
ShinyProxy is one of the most popular options to host any type of containerized web application, including but not limited to Shiny apps. It provides authentication, authorization, application isolation, scalability, and a lot more with extensive documentation. ShinyProxy is free and open-source.
ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Secured Embedding of Shiny Apps Since version 2.0. 1 ShinyProxy provides a REST API to manage (launch, shut down) Shiny apps and consume the content programmatically inside broader web applications or portals.
This is perfectly possible. As the configuration page of the manual mentions, when a user is authenticated, the following environment variables will be available in any Shiny application launched by the user:
From within the Shiny app, you can then query this information using
userName <- Sys.getenv("SHINYPROXY_USERNAME")
and use that downstream in your SQL queries.
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