hide creation view for IP addresses not on whitelist

[mariuszkrzaczkowski]

Describe the problem/question

When we have a white list of IP addresses that can create pastes, for IP addresses outside this list, the creation form is displayed by default after entering. Is it possible to hide this form for IP addresses outside the white list? This is a bit misleading

Did you use the FAQ section?

• Yes, I have read the FAQ and I found no solution/answer there.

What you did?

just go to the default view

What happens

No response

What should happen

it would be nice if the creation form was hidden

Additional information

No response

Server address

No response

Server OS

No response

Webserver

No response

PrivateBin version

1.7.6

Browser and version

No response

Local operating system and version

No response

Issue reproducibility

No, I cannot reproduce it on https://privatebin.net.

[rugk]

Please see our FAQ for that, this question covers how you can solve this: https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/FAQ#how-can-i-link-to-a-read-only-mode-where-users-cant-submit-pastes

There is no built-in IP white or blacklisting except for throttling reasons.

[mariuszkrzaczkowski]

this does not answer my question. IP whitelist, i.e. this parameter

PrivateBin/cfg/conf.sample.php

Line 179 in bb4a3a0

; creators = "1.2.3.4,10.10.10/24"

I added my IP, but others see the creation view even though they can't create, and it's best to hide the form and the creation button

[elrido]

Both the creators and the exempted lists only apply to the rate limiting. They do not hide the creation form:

PrivateBin/lib/Persistence/TrafficLimiter.php

Lines 175 to 176 in bb4a3a0

	// if creators are defined, the traffic limiter will only allow creation
	// for these, with no limits, and skip any other rules

If you wanted to change the logic of the front- and backend to do so, do raise a pull request with your proposed change. I suspect it could be tricky to implement, as the new paste view is a central state of the app that many transitions lead to.