[Owncloud] ldap user and data folder name

[Tornóci László]

Hi,

On 08/14/2013 12:19 PM, Vieri wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> On Mi, 2013-08-14 at 02:14 -0700, Vieri wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed that when an LDAP user logs into owncloud a user "home"
>>> directory is created in the data subdir. The folder name is the "LDAP
>>> user name" (Active Directory's sAMAccountName in my case) just like for
>>> the "local" admin user. However, if the LDAP user logs in and adds an
>>> external mount point (SMB share) then a new "user dir" is created in
>>> the data subdir.
>>
>> I tried it (though not with SMB but WebDAV) but I got not a second
>> folder.
>
> I haven't tried webdav, only smb.
>
>>> This time, instead of the username an ID is used (eg.
>>> DFA761B9-4B3C-4E35-9FA9-B84ECBCE53F2).
>>
>> What are the contents of this folder?
>
> /files_external/uploads/
> (empty subdirs)

In my experience this is totally harmless, the users don't even know 
about this problem. It also seems to be quite safe to delete these empty 
dirs. But of course this is not right, and it is quite confusing to the 
admin. Especially, if there are also local users in addition to ones 
defined in LDAP. I've been seeing this for months now. In my case they 
look like this (the internal username attrib is set to uid for me in the 
expert section):
uid/files_external/uploads

I never had the time though to find out what exactly triggers the 
creation of these "ghost directories". I don't use smb mounts though, 
only local and external mounts of google and dropbox services.


					Yours: Laszlo