local mode has been disabled by your administrator

[G0nz0uk]

Hello,

I've had to restart our Grafana docker today and for some reason I get:

"local mode has been disabled by your administrator"

If I go to my datasource and test it says it's working.

Using Grafana 8.0.1 and Sign CSV 0.6.1

Any help would be great!

[marcusolsson]

v0.6.0 was a security update. Allowing local mode means that Grafana users can read files on the local machine, which can pose security risks if there's sensitive information on the same file system as the Grafana server.

For this reason I've blocked local mode by default. If you want to enable it, please see the documentation:

https://marcus.se.net/grafana-csv-datasource/configuration#allow-local-mode

[G0nz0uk]

I will try that thanks.

I'm struggling to enable it as we use docker and and environment file for custom attributes for the grafana.ini

for example for SNMP I use this:
GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app,grafana-clock-panel,marcusolsson-csv-datasource
GF_SMTP_ENABLED=true
GF_SMTP_HOST=10.10.10.123:25
GF_SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS=[email protected]
GF_SMTP_FROM_NAME=Grafana-Monitor

How would yours look, I did try the below with no success:

GF_PLUGIN.MARCUSOLSSON-CSV-DATASOURCE_ALLOW_LOCAL_MODE=true

[marcusolsson]

Hm. I haven't tried it with environment variables, but if you set it in the grafana.ini, it's actually exposed as a variable:

https://github.com/marcusolsson/grafana-csv-datasource/blob/85aa0a33af3a6a0f728eaae8dde3ffe14922b67b/pkg/datasource.go#L47

Does it work if you set:

GF_PLUGIN_ALLOW_LOCAL_MODE=true?

[G0nz0uk]

Yes that worked, thanks.

To test the security issue do you mean create a datasource to /, and query something like etc/secret.json?
Is the query in a new panel?

[mikethebee]

My Grafana in running on a raspberryPi on an intranet and I need local mode. Instructions at https://marcus.se.net/grafana-csv-datasource/configuration#allow-local-mode work, but it would help noobs to suggest the default location for the configuration on linux is /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

[ChlaegerIO]

In my case I could solve it with the following two lines in the grafana.ini file.

[plugin.marcusolsson-csv-datasource]
allow_local_mode = true

See also the redit source: https://www.reddit.com/r/grafana/comments/o8ac4f/csv_plugin_local_mode_has_been_disabled_by_your/.

[diogobaltazar]

I can enable local mode with before launching the server by:

export GF_PLUGIN_ALLOW_LOCAL_MODE=true

But I can't enable local mode with grafana.ini. Where do you place this file? I've tried with no avail to:

• /opt/homebrew/etc/grafana/grafana.ini
• /usr/local/etc/grafana/grafana.ini

with contents:

[plugin.marcusolsson-csv-datasource]
allow_local_mode = true

[Krishanadave671]

how did you export i didn't understood ?