LDAP user and group backend app is missing [oC 10.0]

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I have installed oC 9.x version and successfully integrated it with AD. As there were problems with publishing calendars using WebDAV I have upgraded oC to version 10.0. The problem - as stated in topic subject - is that the LDAP user and group backend app is missing on the apps page.

Steps to reproduce

  1. clear installation of oC on Ubuntu server 16.04.02 (using apt-get install)
  2. upgrade (using apt-get upgrade)
  3. disabled calendar & user ldap (using occ) as occ upgrade returned warnings about apps being incompatible or missing.

Expected behaviour
I was expecting after upgrade to enable ā€˜LDAP ā€¦ backendā€™ again and complete AD integration

Actual behaviour
Unfortunately, there is no ā€˜LDAP ā€¦ backendā€™ available among apps (enabled or disabled). There is also no such directory in /var/www/owncloud/apps/ folder.

Server configuration
Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS server
Web server: Apache 2.4.18
Database: mysql 14.14
PHP version: 7.0.15
ownCloud version (see ownCloud admin page): 10.0.0.12
Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install: updated (description above)
Special configuration (external storage, external authentication, reverse proxy, server-side-encryption): external storage enabled for dropbox and SMB integration.

ownCloud configuration

 "system": {
        "updatechecker": false,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "\/var\/www\/owncloud\/data",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\/owncloud",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "10.0.0.12",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "localhost",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "logtimezone": "UTC",
        "installed": true,
        "ldapIgnoreNamingRules": false,
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***l",
        "mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
        "mail_smtpauth": 1,
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "587",
        "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "maintenance": false,
        "loglevel": 2
    }

ownCloud log (data/owncloud.log)

Integrity status for oC9+

No errors have been found.
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Found info ā€¦ LDAP integration is not yet available for version 10.0 ā€¦ Iā€™ve found it few seconds after sending previous post.

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Same here! Could you post where is this information about LDAP integration not yet available for version 10.0?

Is it normal? A version with an important feature as LDAP authentication got released?

ā€“

EDIT: I just found it on another post here in central.

4

This is very urgent to us, too - our system is down because itā€™s not supporting LDAP.
When will the LDAP app be available for oC 10?
Is there any quick fix / workaround?

5

Hi people!

Where can I get the version v9.1.5-1.1 ?

The system is down because itā€™s not supporting LDAP. So, I need to restore v9.1.5-1.1 and the database backup for this version.

APT repository just have the latest version, v10.0.0, called ā€˜stableā€™. Normally, the stable version has all features that is in a previous version. I think the reposity should have at least the lastest minor version from version 9, or something like that.

Tks.

EDIT: we can get a tarball here

download.owncloud.com

6

Hi,

I did also fall knee deep hereā€¦

Is it possible to downgrade to 9.1.5? or when is the ldap module expected to be ready?

7

Just some notes:

  1. Never upgrade to the next major release without doing any backups or having a rollback plan
  2. Never upgrade a productive system to the first release of a major release (especially not directly on the release day)
  3. Check if all features / apps you currently need are available in/for that major release
  4. Downgrading is not possible without reverting to a previous done backup
  5. Older repositories (e.g. for 9.1) are linked at Changelog - ownCloud

About the missing ldap app:

AFAIK most apps where moved to the new marketplace so just give them some time to sort out everything like the availability of these apps. I think its a good step forward to not include all apps like the user_ldap app in the release. This makes the package more modular and doesnā€™t deploy unneeded stuff on every installation out there.

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Thatā€™s actually also my advise, but how do you know itā€™s an major update? I just did ā€œsudo apt-get update/upgradeā€ā€¦ It should at least be mark as hold so it doesnā€™t install automatically. Maybe itā€™s now time to move to nextcloud. Every major owncloud upgrade was a lot of trouble. And also have a look at seafile guys, Iā€™m using it more than two years and had not any problem with any update. Quite awesome.

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Personally iā€™m informing myself about the software iā€™m using and the release cycles and new releases. So i know whats a major release and also know if i should do an update / upgrade or not.

You also have to chance to use the 9.1 repositories at:

https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/9.1/owncloud/

which doesnā€™t push you to the next major release once it is out. With that you can control the time youā€™re jumping to the next release on your own but still receive updates for your current used version.

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This is a very important information!!! It should be on the download page of website. When we click in Downloads we get the page with instruction to add a ā€œstableā€ repository.

Hey! At this point the website could explain that there are repositories based on major releases! So, admins can choose what version they want.

https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/

And, finally, this model where the stable repository changes between major versions is very strange! Stable could be named ā€œlatestā€, couldnā€™t?

Iā€™ve restored the backup with 9.1 version, application and database. But, the .deb package froze on installed state and I canā€™t touch this! Iā€™m goingo to install a new server and wait for LDAP support on v10. Then, I will migrate.

Tks.

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Mhhh, if you have a look at:

and click on the ā€œPackagesā€ tab you will see the following text on the right side:

Channels:
We offer Release Channels to track specific branches like Betaā€™s or older stable branches

Each version entry on the Changelog - ownCloud page has also a link to this release channels in the form of:

Learn more about Release Channels.

If you have feedback about the visibility of this information they are probably happy about these at e.g. GitHub Ā· Where software is built

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On a stable Debian system you expect to be able to do apt-get upgrade safely. Owncloud is probably one of the very few exceptions from this rule.

I got used to the fact that every single minor upgrade required manual invocation of occ to perform actual upgrade. But I really did not expect that you would deliver untested and incomplete release on STABLE channelā€¦

You should name it ā€œdailyā€ or ā€œexperimentalā€ so we knew to stay away from it.

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I completely agree with @bartek_o and others on this issue. At my company we apply unattended upgrades on all but a few servers to keep them up to date and secure with the latest patches. So when our OwnCloud server was in maintenance mode this morning I logged in and did the regular update routine using the occ command. Little did I know that this would result in an unusable instance due to the unavailability of LDAP and 2FA.

Yes you can stick to a single major release as @kljhlkhglklfgh suggests, but this is definitely not as clear as it could be and not quite the default if you go for an installation through OwnCloudā€™s repositories. All in all Iā€™m not quite happy with OwnCloud today, which is unfortunate since I like the product but itā€™s still in an acceptance stage at my company.

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14

An indicator how many days finishing the LDAP module needs would be nice. So I know if itā€™s worth waitingā€¦

15

user_ldap will arrive in the next days via the marketplace - this was communicated via the release notes

ā†’ Missing user_ldap after Upgrade to 10 Ā· Issue #27768 Ā· owncloud/core Ā· GitHub

Thats the info which is available to us users.

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Ouch - this kind of takes this version of the table for enterprise.

17

IMHO the first releases of a major version never should be on the table for enterprise (even not on productive home environments).

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True - but leaving behind a feature like authentication really makes it tough for me, who was subscribed to the ā€œstableā€ channel. I would recommend new releases get put in the beta channel. To keep with patching a INET facing application, I have updates occur automatically. Until now, things have been patched without issue, and then things got updated to the new version, which left behind the ability to authenticate users. I can understand new features not working, but things like authentication shouldnā€™t break.

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From what i can see pushing 10.0 to the ā€œstableā€ channel was a mistake as it was reverted only a few hours later. They never did that before and waited a few months (e.g. for x.0.1 or x.0.2) before pushing the next major release into the stable channel.

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Ahhh - got ya. Weā€™re still in testing/dev, and I would always snapshot the VM before making changes, and have backups, but this update certainly was a surprise.