[Owncloud] group admins and user creation privilege

[Erwin Rennert]

On 04/24/2013 11:52 AM, Andreas Ergenzinger wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to know what people's feelings are about the ability of
> subadmins (a.k.a. group admins) to create new user accounts. Should
> all subadmins always be able to do that? Or should that privilege
> require explicit permission from the (super) admin, possibly on an
> individual basis.

Hi!
I believe use cases vastly differ.
I would prefer the super admin being able to decide, whether the group 
admin may create users.

However, there are a number of other questions regarding groups and 
their administration.

* As of now, IF a group admin knows the exact user ID of another user on 
the system, s/he may actually add this user to his/her group by 
"creating" a userID with a random password.
** Is this desirable?
* The group admin may also extend or reduce the user's quota.
** In my view this is definitely undesirable. The quota should stick at 
the default setting, or even better, the site admin should set a group 
quota.
* Group quota: Here we go!
** there is a feature request: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/1347
** Now in my view, existing users should be exempt from the group quota; 
after all they may be members of various groups.

Lots of difficult questions.

Yours,
Erwin


>
> I am asking because I see a conflict here, between using groups with
> subadmins and the admin's desire to manage the whole user base with
> user backends.
>
> Since I would like to have both, I would be willing to implement the
> necessary changes, but I would like to know the exact requirements
> first and whether this has any chance of making it to the core.
>
> Cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________
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