Custom user permissions

[Beselch_Rodriguez]

Hello community,

Is there a way to customize my users’ permissions? Needed:

• Users cannot upload files or create folders. They can only access the files and folders that I share.
• Users cannot rename shared folders and files.
• Users cannot reject a shared folder.
• Users cannot post comments.

It is surprising that on a platform as widespread as this, there is no clear way to do these things.

Thanks in advance. Regards,
B.

[tom42]

Hey,

@Beselch_Rodriguez

• Users cannot upload files or create folders. They can only access the files and folders that I share.

i think this is already possible by setting a users quota to 0 bytes.

@Beselch_Rodriguez

• Users cannot rename shared folders and files.
• Users cannot reject a shared folder.

I don’t think that you can define such permissions in ownCloud. It seems you can only enable the following:

Automatically accept new incoming local user shares

described here:

https://doc.owncloud.com/server/10.4/admin_manual/release_notes.html#pending-shares

But allowing / giving the user the freedom to remove a share seems to me like a design decision by the ownCloud makers.

@Beselch_Rodriguez

• Users cannot post comments.

I think you just can disable the “Comments” app to disallow posting comments.

If there is anything missing on https://doc.owncloud.com about the asked items then i think you could notify the ownCloud people at https://github.com/owncloud/docs/issues so that they can improve the documentation.

Posting a feature request for the ownCloud people about missing permission handling in ownCloud at https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues could be something which i think could make sense as well.