# Private Applications in Open Ondemand

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/private-applications-in-open-ondemand/4503>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** feature-request, question\
**Created:** [September 3, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/private-applications-in-open-ondemand/4503 "2025-09-03T11:37:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christian-bustelo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/christian-bustelo/32/2685_2.png) [@Christian-bustelo](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/Christian-bustelo)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/private-applications-in-open-ondemand/4503/1 "2025-09-03T11:37:34Z")

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Hello, everyone!

Just a quick question: one of my colleagues asked me if there is a way to make some of the Open Ondemand applications (e.g. Rstudio or Code Server) unavailable to all portal users, something like filtering by user group.

Do we have any feature or workaround to do this?

Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![jeff.ohrstrom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/jeff.ohrstrom/32/136_2.png) [@jeff.ohrstrom](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/jeff.ohrstrom)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/private-applications-in-open-ondemand/4503/2 "2025-09-03T13:19:38Z")

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Hi! We sure do. Basically you just `chmod` the folder so that some people can see it and others can’t based on the Unix groups they’re in.

> **[Customizations — Open OnDemand 4.0.0 documentation](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/customizations.html#enabling-applications-for-a-limited-number-of-users)**

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**Author:** ![Christian-bustelo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/christian-bustelo/32/2685_2.png) [@Christian-bustelo](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/Christian-bustelo)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/private-applications-in-open-ondemand/4503/3 "2025-09-03T13:34:11Z")

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Oh yea, that make sense. Thank you very much as always @jeff.ohrstrom !! 😃

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/osc/original/2X/b/bae70bd0ed39a3ae769c2108155f4cb3e9da8385.png) [@system](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/private-applications-in-open-ondemand/4503/4 "2026-03-02T13:34:21Z")

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