[Owncloud] dynamic group sharing

Arthur Schiwon blizzz at owncloud.com
Fri May 11 09:48:37 UTC 2012



On 05/11/2012 11:24 AM, Dirk Kastens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suggested an enhancement to thebuggenie (oc-606) about dynamic group
> sharing:
>
> "Sharing files with a group is not dynamic. That means, if a user is
> added to a group and the group has access to a shared file, the user is
> not automatically authorized to access the file. On the other hand, if a
> user is deleted from a group, he can still access the shared file. This
> is not what I would expect. The group membership should be evaluated
> each time a user logs in."
>
> The case has been closed with the comment: "This was a bug. Sharing now
> listens for the group events if a user is added or removed from a group."
>
> This might apply to local groups, but this still doesn't work with ldap
> groups. Can someone confirm this? Shall I open a new bug report for that?

It will require changes in the base user/group management as well as 
caching of LDAP users and groups (currently we do just mapping, which 
can be used but still we need to touch base user management). Given the 
  release plan, we won't have this in OC 4 – except we say it's a 
showstopper bug.

>
> Regards,
> Dirk
>
>
>
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