thanks @r0ller
I have to work on that.
You're welcome. Let me know if you need more details. I did not copy our solution here as it got a bit complex, extended with user role check (we reuse the nodered authentication api for our single user dashboard ui where user roles make a difference though) and we also added a dynamic editor login enable/disable logic as well.
for those running Node-RED in an environment that auto-restarts the service (for example in Home Assistant with Watchdog enabled):
in my case the previously posted commands (node-red-restart, systemctrl, etc.) were not available.
what did work though is the kill command: Node-RED gets shut down via a pkill node-red exec block; Home Assistant will then auto-restart the service, which also reloads settings.js.
example flow:
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