| author | title | description | date | thumbnail | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Svenn D'Hert |
rstudio server hack the login |
use Nginx to hack your own rstudio instance |
2022-11-09 |
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/rstudio-server-hack/ |
One of the features lacking from the open-source version of rstudio-server is the possibilty to edit the html pages (eg. to make a custom login page). It's highly annoying one can't give atleast some help reference on the login page, so I found a way to "hack" my own webserver by leveraging nginx's sub_filter
You can simply replace the body with something like this :
# replace the login page only
location /auth-sign-in
{
sub_filter '<body>' '<body> some fancy help message !';
sub_filter_once on;
proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding ""; # only required if gzip compression is on
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
}
Using this method one could easily inject javascript or replace the entire page with a custom page.
info :
- https://support--rstudio-com.netlify.app/products/rstudio/#rstudio-server
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19700871/how-to-inject-custom-content-via-nginx
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