[Owncloud] How to create a users for large deployments

[Simon Brereton]

On 24 October 2012 11:27, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
> Should be possible with the user_external app
>
> Frank

Yes - I thought so too.  I enabled it, but I see no way to configure it.

Probably it's just me - but often with FOSS I find the the developers
spend so much time developing and tweaking stuff that they know where
everything is (much like I know where the obscure options in Excel are
to be found), but the UI isn't conducive to new learner using.

In fact, I find nowhere to configure anything except the Admin section
- and it's not in there.  Clicking on the app in the apps list just
shows the author and the licence terms.  Googling "owncloud configure
user_external app" shows nothing - just results for configuring
external storage.

Simon



> 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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