[Owncloud] Integrating OwnCloud with /home folders

[Craig Sawyer]

What you are asking for is nearly impossible.

starting web servers, and then the PHP stuff on demand per user
accessing would be... painfully slow.

My solution (since I have a similar need), is to duplicate the data.
I use pyowncloud (https://github.com/csawyerYumaed/pyOwnCloud/) --
which is a python CLI OC client) on the server, and sync each person
out to owncloud, and then each Windows/Mac/etc client can also sync to
owncloud.  This way they get the important 'data' folder from the
homedir on the server, and it's treated just like another OC client.

Hopefully this makes sense.

It's not the best solution, but it's the only one I could make work
reliably.  It would be nice if OC allowed for server side file
changes, outside of OC making the changes, but I don't think that will
happen anytime soon.

-Craig



On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Adrian Sevcenco
<Adrian.Sevcenco at spacescience.ro> wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 08:18 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>> Hello,
> Hi!
>
>> I have a Linux server with 35 users, each who have their files in
>> /home/domain/username/data/*.
>>
>> How can I configure OwnCloud so that each user who logs into OwnCloud
>> would be able to see the files in their home directory?
> I would also be very interested in this, to access and export somehow
> the user home and not some separate data dir.
>
>> At the moment the files of each user are in
>> /var/www/owncloud/username/files. I cannot simply point this files as
>> a symlink to the home directory, as the OwnCloud PHP process is run as
>> user www-data.
>>
>> Is there some way to re-use the user log in credentials to auto-mount
>> the user home directory via sftp or something at login time?
> maybe if an app could generate rsa keys (in owncloud user location) that
> could be added to the actual user .ssh/config for localhost user connection?
>
> It would be ideal if the storage can be moved to each user home dir and
> just great if each apache instance started by owncloud could change
> credentials to the user ones.
>
> Thanks!
> Adrian
>
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