Hide Admin menu section for non-admins

[alehaa]

NetBox version

v4.0.8

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

If a user is not an administrator, the Admin > System section of the menu should not be visible. If the user also lacks permissions for any menu item of Admin > Authentication, the Admin section should be hidden completely.

Use case

A user with no permissions can't see API Tokens, System and Background Tasks. However, these menu items are shown. Hiding them makes the UI a bit cleaner.

Database changes

None

External dependencies

None

[alehaa]

I volunteer to work on a PR for this feature.

[jhofmueller]

Any news on this one? I hesitate to upgrade from 3.7.8 because I do not want to confuse our users. Stating that I have to add that this behavior was introduced in the 4.x branch.

[wz4]

This looks like it can be handled by assigning each MenuItem the attribute staff_only=True

netbox/netbox/netbox/navigation/menu.py

Lines 381 to 393 in fe0ae39

	ADMIN_MENU = Menu(
	label=_('Admin'),
	icon_class='mdi mdi-account-multiple',
	groups=(
	MenuGroup(
	label=_('Authentication'),
	items=(
	MenuItem(
	link='users:user_list',
	link_text=_('Users'),
	auth_required=True,
	permissions=['users.view_user'],
	buttons=(

[jhofmueller]

Thank you, but no. I don't want to mess with the code on our installation. I have avoided running NetBox from a dedicated code base (aka our own) so far and would like to stick to that. So I'm still hoping for the old behavior to be restored 😎

[wz4]

@arthanson I will volunterr unless @alehaa is still interested.

[alehaa]

@wz4 you can take this one but I still volunteer as backup.

Please keep in mind there are plans to remove the staff field in #16137, checking the admin state would be preferable.