[Owncloud] Administratively disable a user

Masaki Kawabata masaki.kawabata at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 11:01:06 UTC 2013


Em 29/08/2013 07:10, Erwin Rennert escreveu:
> On 08/29/2013 10:15 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
>> Dear Masaki,
>>
>>> Is there a way to administratively disable a user? I mean, disable
>>> user by using admin account? But not deleting the files, just
>>> denying access while the account is disabled.
>>
>>
>> administrators can set that user's password to some suitable random
>> string. As long as the new password remains unknown to that user this
>> would solve your problem.
>
> Sorry, but this will not work if users are authenticated against LDAP 
> or the unix user backend and similar. If this is the case, the admin 
> cannot change the password.
>
> As I believe this to be a sensible request, I have opened an issue on 
> Github: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/4636
>
> - Erwin
>
>>
>> Best regards, Stefan
>>
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I´ve commented the issue at github.
Thanks.
Hi, this is relevant in my case because we used to have some temporary 
external user account that share files with our users. At some time, the 
user of this account must not have access to it but the files need to be 
shared for a while.

Masaki



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