[Owncloud] How to manage thousands of users?
CJ Keist
cj.keist at colostate.edu
Mon Sep 30 17:17:56 UTC 2013
Could someone send me the the table structure for oc_preferneces? For
some reason my database doesn't have it.
On 9/27/13 4:18 PM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
> Dear CJ Keist,
>
> On 27.09.2013, at 22:28, CJ Keist <cj.keist at colostate.edu> wrote:
>
>> The web interface doesn't look to have the ability to list thousands of users on my owncloud system. So there is no way for me to set custom disk quotas for users that are not displayed on the web interface. I have tried the search function on the page but that doesn't work.
>> So I tried to see where disk quota settings are stored on the mysql database but have not had any luck finding where that value is set per user account. Could someone direct me on how I can set default disk quota for users on my system?
>
> I am not sure that this is the "official" way of doing things but I would suggest a different approach: if you use the MySQL backend, it seems to be pretty straightforward to set all sorts of parameters with a few lines of SQL code. In fact, this is similar to our own automated method of creating a large number of users in OwnCloud and sending automatically generated E-mails with activation links (tokens).
>
> With OwnCloud 5, you can look up user data in the oc_user table (here: "aeinstein" is the "uid" of "Albert Einstein"), you can then set a quota of 10 GB like this:
>
> INSERT INTO `oc_preferences` VALUES
> ('aeinstein','files','quota','10 GB');
>
> If you have a list of uids it is very easy to repeat that line as often as required.
>
> Warm regards,
> Stefan
>
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C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist at colostate.edu
Systems Group Manager Solaris 10 OS (SAI)
Engineering Network Services Phone: 970-491-0630
College of Engineering, CSU Fax: 970-491-5569
Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301
All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness'
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