OwnCloud User and Group Administration

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ownCloud provides security administration tools for maintaining User IDs, security groups, user group administration, and user disk quotas.

Administration Elements

Logging in as the ownCloud "admin" user and navigating to Settings=>Users displays the administration user and group administration area of the ownCloud instance. The of the screen contains security toolbar for this area. The security toolbar is used to create new user IDs, security groups, and changing the default disk storage quota for new user IDs.

1. Name
 
2. Password

3. Groups

4. Create

5. Default Quota
   What is a "quota"? All ownCloud instance users share a pool of permanent disk storage. In most cases an ownCloud
   Administrator may decide to manage the maximum amount of storage each user will be allocated. This maximum is
   called a "quota". For example, say that all users share a pool of storage 1 TB (Tera Byte) of storage. The ownCloud
   Administrator decides that new users will be allocated 10 GB (Giga Bytes) at the start. More storage can be set
   for each user later. So in this example the Administrator will set the "Default Quota" field in the security 
   toolbar to 10 GB. Any new ownCloud user IDs created from here on will be set to 10 GB. It is highly recommended
   that quotas are set for a new ownCloud instance until shared storage use is better understood.

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