OwnCloud User and Group Administration
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ownCloud provides administration features for maintaining User IDs, security groups, user group administration, and user disk quotas.
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Security Administration Toolbar
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 This is the name of a new ownCloud user ID (i.e. test, test1). 2. Password This is the password associated with a new ownCloud user ID. After the login with the initial user ID password, navigating to Settings=>Personal, the user can set a new password. 3. Groups This dropdown field is used for creating new ownCloud Security Groups. New or existing groups can be associated can be associated at this point with a new user ID about the be "Create"d. If a new group is created from this field is can be associated with existing user IDs further down on the User settings screen. 4. Create This is a button used for creating a new ownCloud user ID. 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.
