[Owncloud] Encryption password recovery

[Arthur Schiwon]

On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 09:14:56 PM Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> On 06/03/2013 01:54 PM, Dirk Kastens wrote:
> > can someone explain me how the encryption password recovery works?
> > What are the steps to get it to work?
> > At first, the admin has to enable the encryption passwords recovery key,
> > right?
> 
> That's right.
> 
> Than the user who wants to use this feature has to enable it in his
> personal settings "Enable password recovery by sharing all files with
> your administrator".
> 
> Now if the user loses his password the admin can go to the user
> management, enter the recovery password and than set a new password for
> the user. This will automatically recover the users file to the new
> log-in password.

@Björn: FYI, Dirk's scenario always concerns LDAP users.

Cheers
Arthur

> 
> cheers,
> Björn