Draft: file system: cleanup

Summary

• Remove DropOffBox Feature
  • Chown Script
• Remove Thumbnail Feature
• Refactor Checksum/Hashing Classes

See also

• caosdb-pyinttest!47
• caosdb-pylib!83

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conf/core/server.conf

@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@ TMP_FILES=./CaosDBFileSystem/TMP/
 # In contrast to the script's working directory, these subdirectories are publicly accessible.
 SHARED_FOLDER=./CaosDBFileSystem/Shared/
 
-# Path to the chown script which is needed by the drop off box in order to change permissions of files.
-CHOWN_SCRIPT=./misc/chown_script/caosdb_chown_dropoffbox
-
 # This file is responsible for setting individual user and group permissions.
 USER_SOURCES_INI_FILE=./conf/ext/usersources.ini
 # The default state of users which are added to the internal user source.
@@ -195,10 +192,6 @@ CACHE_DISABLE=false
 INSERT_FILES_IN_DIR_ALLOWED_DIRS=
 #INSERT_FILES_IN_DIR_ALLOWED_DIRS=/data/caosdb,/fileserver01/caosdb
 
-# Sudo password of the system.
-# Needed by the drop off box to set file permissions.
-SUDO_PASSWORD=
-
 # If set to false ACL checks are circumvented during querying. This may leak information but is a lot faster.
 QUERY_FILTER_ENTITIES_WITHOUT_RETRIEVE_PERMISSIONS=TRUE