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API tokens with view-table but not view-database/view-instance cannot access the table #2102

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Spotted a problem while working on this: if you grant a token access to view table for a specific table but don't also grant view database and view instance permissions, that token is useless.

This was a deliberate design decision in Datasette - it's documented on https://docs.datasette.io/en/1.0a2/authentication.html#access-permissions-in-metadata

If a user cannot access a specific database, they will not be able to access tables, views or queries within that database. If a user cannot access the instance they will not be able to access any of the databases, tables, views or queries.

I'm now second-guessing if this was a good decision.

Originally posted by @simonw in simonw/datasette-auth-tokens#7 (comment)

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