✴ New Feature | Safe Share
Hello PH 👋🏽,
I’m here with a major update – Safe Share. Do you want to share your own server or your company’s server with someone else so they can deploy the application, but you don’t quite trust them, or perhaps it contains highly valuable data? In such a situation, could you trust even your closest friend?
With Safe Share, you can now grant limited access to your server even to people you don’t trust! You can allow specific sudo commands, block any commands you don’t want (yes, even the ‘cd’ command), and even prevent them from uploading their own files to the server or downloading server files via SFTP. You can find the feature demonstration video below.
Safe Share - introduction video
If you haven’t given Local Panel a try yet, now is the perfect time. If you’d like to try it for free, you can find Local Panel Lite on the App Store, Microsoft Store and Snap Store. I’m really keen to hear your thoughts on this feature – I’m open to feedback.
Local Panel - Nesdzo website
Mac App Store (The only update that has not yet been approved)
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Interesting feature, the ability to restrict uploads and downloads stands out to me because file access is often where the biggest risks appear during collaboration.
@lakeesha_weatherwaxi like that this tackles trust at the permission level instead of relyion on assumptions, sometimes even trusted people only need access to a very small part of a system.
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@lakeesha_weatherwax @shawn_idrees Thank you for sharing your thoughts and highlighting the parts you liked.
Ensuring the security of systems is often difficult, but the real security vulnerability is people themselves, which is why social engineering is so widespread. I don’t think we should have to lie awake at night wondering who might have wiped our entire database; we need to take the necessary precautions.
@oguz_yesil This is a practical security feature. A lot of teams end up sharing broader access than they're comfortable with just to get work done. Granular permissions like this can help bridge the gap between collaboration and security without creating unnecessary friction.
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@connor_hayes1 Thank you for your kind comment; we felt this was a feature people really needed, so we’ve written a blog post about it. It’s a bit of a long read, but if you’d like to have a look, you can find it here.
There’s a table in that blog post, as shown below. Yes, there may be more advanced competitors for this feature, but we’re solving a more niche problem.