Password Protected Folders

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This is a followed discussion based on feature request #9530 on Github https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/9530

I would second MatthieuPERIN's requirement below which I believe shall give us more flexible control over OC.

/projetcA -> shared among all participant using group / user permission
/projetcA/work -> shared among all participant using group / user permission
/projecta/team -> shared among all participant using group / user permission
/projectA/admin -> protected folder with password for administrator of project
/projetcA/admin/finacial -> protected by the upper folder
.....

The features:

Admin of the shared folder should be able to protect the access of a (sub)folder using a password using web interface (minimal feature)
Admin of the shared folder should be able to protect the access of a (sub)folder using a password directly using the local desktop agent (improvement feature)
This is clearly a way to produce a more accurate access control for sub folder inside a shared folder.


I would prefer an option to set specific permissions on subdirectories of a current share. Either you are authorized to see it or not. Extra passwords are very annoying.

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I think that's exactly what I'm looking for. I have a owncloud for my company and one for private. When I'm in my office, I want to be able to edit both folders, but no staff. Employees should be able to edit the folder "Company", "Private" should be password protected. How can I protect the folder "Private"? Does anyone have a little guide?

Right now you do need to generate a seperate folder "private" and share that with the needed rights. Password protection is possible for public links at this time - which can then be federated by your users.

The overrall discussion was about "Project Rooms" which shall be a new view on folders with the ability to break inheritance, which we don't allow currently.

Hi, finally any way to password protect acces to directories ??, it would be very useful to me right now