Hi Charles,
               not a problem. In my previous post I specified the command line:

/home/galaxy/milxcloud/scripts/api/display.py <api_key> http://barium-rbh:9100/extras/api/histories/ebfb8f50c6abde6d/contents/4a56addbcc836c23

The <api_key> in your question refers to the api_key of an "admin" user, however, the history_id (ebfb8f50c6abde6d) refers to a history not "owned" by the admin user using the unique api_key i.e. another user, hence the error message

I hope that answers your question?

Neil

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From: Charles Girardot [charles.girardot@embl.de]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 6:31 PM
To: Burdett, Neil (CCI, Herston - RBWH)
Cc: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Can't view file_name in histories via API unless admin?

Hi Neil,

sorry, this is not an answer to your post, I hope you won t mind me stepping in your thread this way.
Your message kept my attention because of your note: I am surprised by the error message you report when trying to use an admin API key.

How does galaxy know the user who is making the call?

Sorry if I am missing the obvious

bw

Charles

On 17 Jan 2014, at 07:35, <Neil.Burdett@csiro.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>     it seems that the entry "file_name:" does not appear when running the command
>
> /home/galaxy/milxcloud/scripts/api/display.py <api_key> http://barium-rbh:9100/extras/api/histories/ebfb8f50c6abde6d/contents/4a56addbcc836c23
>
> unless you are stated as as admin user in the "universe_wsgi.ini"
> i.e.
> admin_users = test@test.com,test1@test.com
>
> is this known?
>
> Is there anyway to get around this as we don't want all users to be admin, however, they need access to this field.
>
> Note that you can't use an admin's <api_key> as you'll get the error
> "Error in history API at listing dataset: History is not owned by the current user"
>
> Thanks
> Neil
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