[Owncloud] dynamic group sharing

[Arthur Schiwon]

On 05/11/2012 11:48 AM, Arthur Schiwon wrote:
>
>
> 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.

P.S.:
just took a deeper look for a quick fix, but our mapping is not enough. 
We now when new users are inserted, but we do not know about their group 
related modifications. That's a major change and not for the OC4.

>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>>
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