Converting or recovering LDAP backed account

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I run an owncloud setup for multiple research labs at university. For account credentials, we use the university LDAP server. However, I now need to grant access to files that are in accounts that the university expired off their LDAP server. Is there a way to convert an account that originated in LDAP to a local account and/or relocate their data to an account their research advisor can access? I have no access to the LDAP servers, but I do have root on the owncloud server. There is no encryption enabled, and the server is running 8.2.7.

Has anyone had any similar experiences, or am I effectively out of luck with the data on the drives but no way to meaningfully access it?

Thank you.

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Hi,

if you upgrade to ownCloud 9.0 or 9.1 you can use the files:transfer-ownership occ command described in the manual [1] to move the mentioned files to a local account.

Besides that its strongly advised hat you're at least upgrading to ownCloud 8.2.10 as ownCloud 8.2.7 contains various bugs (see [2]) and vulnerabilities (see [3]).

[1] https://doc.owncloud.org/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html#file-operations

[2] https://owncloud.org/changelog/#latest8.2

[3] https://owncloud.org/security/advisories/