[Owncloud] Call for documentation

[Simon Brereton]

Hi Marcel

No, adding the curly brace didn't help.

I managed to get it to work - I think correctly* - but adding the
following variables - user_id and password such:
  'user_backends'=>array(
            array(
                        'class'=>'OC_User_IMAP',

'arguments'=>array('{mail.redacted.net:143/imap/tls/novalidate-cert}INBOX',"user_id","password")
              )
      )

*correctly here means that valid user accounts log in (and preferences
are saved across sessions.  Invalid users are not able to log in.

There are two small hitches that I've found thus far.
1)  Authenticating users are not added to the users tab in the
administration account
2)  I would like to disable/remove the adminstration account I created
on install and assign the administration rights to one of the
authenticating users (mine).

One other concern occurred to me yesterday - this needs to be moved to
a config.local.php file to avoid being overwritten by an upgrade.
Does Owncloud have such a facility?

If you can help me fix either of those two issues (the first is the
most critical), that would be great.  I'm in the process of moving,
but I will try to write more comprehensive documentation on the
imap_open snippet (I'm not a php programmer, but I know what options
apply to my imap server - others may not.

Cheers

Simon




On 23 January 2013 06:50, Marcel Waldvogel
<Marcel.Waldvogel at uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
> Does adding an open curly brace before mail.example.com fix the problem?
>
> But maybe the error message should be more meaningful…
>
> Viele Grüsse,
> -Marcel Waldvogel
> (kurz&bündig da mobil)
>
> Am 22.01.2013 um 22:52 schrieb Simon Brereton <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:
>
>> This is where it gets interesting.  The example in the link you sent
>> seems straightforward:
>>
>> 'user_backends'=>array(
>>  array(
>>    'class'=>'OC_User_IMAP',
>>    'arguments'=>array('{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX')
>>  )
>> )
>>
>> After adding it to my config/config.php it looks like:
>> <?php
>> $CONFIG = array (
>>  'passwordsalt' => 'redacted',
>>  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/domains/redacted.net/owncloud/data',
>>  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
>>  'version' => '4.90.0',
>>  'dbname' => 'cloud',
>>  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
>>  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
>>  'dbuser' => 'oc_redacted',
>>  'dbpassword' => 'redacted',
>>  'installed' => true,
>>  'instanceid' => 'redacted',
>> 'user_backends'=>array(
>>  array(
>>    'class'=>'OC_User_IMAP',
>>    'arguments'=>array('mail.example.com:143/imap/tls}INBOX')
>>  )
>> )
>> );
>>
>>
>> If I add in the imap snippet I get this error in my owncloud logs:
>> Error core User backend OC_User_IMAP not found. January 22, 2013, 16:47
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On 21 January 2013 12:44, Daniel Molkentin <danimo at owncloud.com> wrote:
>>> It's documented in
>>> http://doc.owncloud.org/server/4.5/admin_manual/custom_user_backend.html. On
>>> GitHub, this is
>>> https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/blob/stable45/admin_manual/custom_user_backend.rst.
>>> It should probably be renamed and moved so that it fits with the LDAP
>>> chapter:
>>> https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/blob/stable45/admin_manual/auth_ldap.rst
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21.01.2013, at 13:40, Simon Brereton wrote:
>>>
>>> I would still appreciate documentation on how to authenticate against an
>>> IMAP server if anyone has written this.  If you only have rough notes, I'll
>>> expand them and polish them.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2013 7:26 AM, "Bernhard Posselt" <nukeawhale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On the 19th of february is the documentation freeze. It would be nice if
>>>> we finished the documentation one week before the deadline to be able to
>>>> make corrections.
>>>>
>>>> To do that, we need to have a list containing stuff that is not done yet.
>>>>
>>>> Please create issues on https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/issues
>>>>
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