Automatic Group Creation based on Username

[jedi-marcus]

We are preparing to migrate to the latest Nextcloud and will be using this plugin for User Authentification.

We are currently missing one crucial feature we programmed ourselves in the old system:

• Automatic Group Creation based on Username

How did this look?
Upon automatic creation of user on first login, we would add the user to a group for this domain.
Example, User:
[email protected]
would be added to a group
Foobar/doe.com
Foobar is just a keyword we decided on to identify our platform.

Since we are hosting multiple, independent domains, this way the users of a single domain would all be grouped and see only users in their domain (e.g. to share with).

Initially we ( @dattn & I ) thought that Group Name Filter might be the answer, but based on the code, it doesn't look like it.

Possible solution would be 1-2 configs to match a regex on the username and then put the result of the regex into another expression.

Could you please:

1. confirm that this is not a feature as of today
2. tell us if you like the solution, we would handle the development and create the necessary pull request.

[felixrupp]

Hey @jedi-marcus

I can confirm, that this is not a feature as of today. If you are willing to develop this feature, feel free to do so! I am always happy to have some helping hands!

Regards and have a great christmas,

Felix

[jedi-marcus]

Good things might take longer, but I'm into this again.

I'm currently analyzing the normal "Group Creation" and I notice that this is only applied when the option "Update user data after each CAS login?" is enabled.

It took me some time to figure this out and don't know if it's the best solution. If we clean this up a little it might also solve #73 in the same run, no?

[felixrupp]

Hi @jedi-marcus

I think you mix up things there. The option "Update user data after each CAS login?" is to enable/disable the update of user data on login.

Group creation in the regular CAS login process is triggered as part of this user data update process. The current/old sourcecode for this is actually removing all groups from the user and adding them (and probably new ones) again. That’s what causes #73. Therefore I have to improve the process of updating the user’s groups, so the current groups do not get detached and reattached on login all the time.

If you decouple the group update/creation part from the "Update user data after each CAS login?" option, the user’s groups (coming from the CAS) are not synced to the ownCloud/Nextcloud group interface anylonger. That’s NOT what we want.

Regards,
Felix

[felixrupp]

@jedi-marcus Any update on this feature?

[jedi-marcus]

I wasn't able to provide a version that would keep with your spirit and solve our issue, so we didn't commit anything yet.

[felixrupp]

@jedi-marcus Okay, i’ll try to find a solution, I currently have some time leftover.

[felixrupp]

/cib

[create-issue-branch]

Branch issue-75-Automatic_Group_Creation_based_on_Username created!

[felixrupp]

Added with Version 1.9. Please review the function and close the ticket afterwards. Thanks!