[Owncloud] Group backend question

[Robin Appelman]

On Tuesday 31 January 2012 16:27:46 Dirk Kastens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to write an ldap backend for group management. I'm using ldap
> for authentication and I like to use our ldap posixgroups for group
> memberships of the users.
> 
> But I've seen that the group module is not prepared for external
> backends, like the user module is. The user module can use different
> backends, and a backend doesn't have to have implemented all user
> functions, like createUser or deleteUser. This should be possible with
> the group module, too. As far as I can see, you can only have a single
> group backend, and if you change the backend, the admin user is missing
> his admin group, for example.
> 
> I've started to rewrite the group module according to the implementation
> of the user module. But there are too many dependencies. Are you
> planning to rewrite the group management - or am I missing something and
> it's easy to write an ldap backend for groups?
> 
> Dirk

You're right, the group system isn't build for multiply backends yet.

Changing it to behave simular to the users system has been a plan for a while 
but I never got to it.

 - Robin Appelman