[GNC] read-only accounts

Glenn Fowler gfowler1 at outlook.com
Fri Dec 3 10:27:51 EST 2021


Hi,

What about just making the file read only with no write permission?

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 9:17 AM Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at mapreri.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 08:33:51PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Mark the account as a PlaceHolder account and it'll be read-only.
>
> Oh, that's a nice trick I didn't think of!  Thanks!
>
> Howver, it seems to me that it doesn't fully lock down the account.  If
> I tried to change a split belonging to that account from "the other
> side", it first nags me about changing a reconciled split, then it
> errors out saying that "the account doesn't allow transactions" (because
> it's read-only), but it then still proceeds to record the changes,
> regardless of the warning.
> Is that the expected behaviour?
>
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