[Owncloud] Group backend question

[Michael Gapczynski]

Christophe - That's the general idea. I'm trying to figure out how to keep
these two separate, but together for sharing without causing confusion for
users and admins like Dirk.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Dirk Kastens <dirk.kastens at uni-osnabrueck.de
> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
>
>  The current implementation of groups in ownCloud is only used for
>> checking admin status and only admins can create/modify groups. In terms
>> of sharing this is alright for enterprise, but it isn't ideal for a
>> normal user who may want to group people together for quick sharing on a
>> reoccuring basis. In my mind this is a different definition of groups
>> and so it may break off from the group backend. For the future of
>> sharing in ownCloud I envision sharing becoming more focused on a user's
>> contacts rather than users of the same ownCloud instance. I'm still
>> formulating these changes in my head.
>>
>
> I see. We have many workgroups at university that use samba shares for
> collaboration. A share can be accessed by the members of a posixgroup. And
> the admin of the workgroup can manage his posixgroup. I thought of owncloud
> as an alternative to the samba shares.
>
> Dirk
>
>
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