[Owncloud] How to create a users for large deployments

[Frank Karlitschek]

Should be possible with the user_external app

Frank



On 24.10.2012, at 16:52, Simon Brereton <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 24, 2012 10:06 AM, "Frank Karlitschek" <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Aliosh,
> >
> > most bigger ownCloud installations use an LDAP or AD directory to manage accounts.
> 
> Not to hijack the thread but if it were easier to input an IMAP server, everyone who had an account on the IMAP server - as most students do - would automatically have an account.
> 
> It would be trivial to add columns to that DB to automatically set quotas, permission to have an account, etc..
> 
> I was told this would be available in 4.5 but as per my post yesterday, if it's there, I can't see it..
> 
> Simon
> 
> > Frank
> >
> >
> > On 24.10.2012, at 15:56, Aliosh Neira <aliosh2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Owncloud Team and friends
> > >
> > > We are deploying Owncloud to the schools and the problem is create users for the students. A teacher can create a user for each student, but take a long time for large schools.
> > >
> > > Is there some alternative to do this more fast?
> > >
> > > Maybe I can do a script to create default users like student1, student2, etc. with a default password that they can modify later.
> > >
> > > Please, all ideas are welcomed.
> > >
> > > Thanks for advance
> > > --
> > > Aliosh Neira Ramirez
> > > Ministerio de Educación
> > > Lima - Perú
> > > Dirección General de Tecnologías Educativas
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