User management

[borisplotkin]

Would like to manage users, which databases they can see and whether they can edit them or not.

[joshuabach]

The authentication mechanism is currently much to simple for that, since we just use pass through the credentials to the underlying database. Providing user management would mean either

• managing the postgres/mysql users (not a viable solution i think) or
• creating our own user management, abandoning the simple passthrough auth mechanism

Personally, I don't really have a use case for that and am quiet happy with the fact that GnuCash Web doesn't know anything about users etc. and just forwards the credentials to the database.

What exactly is your use case for user management? GnuCash Web is intended as a mobile companion to regular GnuCash Desktop, which doesn't support anything multi-user either.

At least the option to select between multiple databases is adressed in some form in #32.