Feature Request: Disabling file uploads for specific users

[farson2003]

Some admins wish to share information with users. At the same time, admins may want to prevent users/groups from uploading any file.

This is a feature request. I do not need it urgently, but I can very well imagine many admins would wish such file upload restrictions for their users.

Please consider.

[jancborchardt]

Hmm, does setting the storage to »0« actually set it to »nothing« or »unlimited«? @schiesbn? If it’s »unlimited«, it should probably be »nothing« instead, and the code for »unlimited« might be better »-1« or so.

[jancborchardt]

In other words: @farson2003 did you try setting the storage for that user to something low like 0, or 1? Does that solve your problem?

[BernhardPosselt]

@icewind1991

[RandolfCarter]

@jancborchardt 0 seems to stand for default - when setting the quota to 0, then leaving and returning to the Users page, it gets set back to "Default".... which can be quite confusing, if there are some values with special meaning they should be set immediately I guess - that way the user at least has the chance to notice that some automatic changes are going on

The lowest quota to be effective seems to be "1", i.e. 1 Byte...

[farson2003]

jancborchardt commented "did you try setting the storage for that user to something low like 0, or 1? Does that solve your problem?"

YES: I tried 1, and in principle that would be a rather primitive solution.
however, everytime a user then logs in and has a look at files the admin has shared with him, the user gets the yellow message at the top of the page: "Your storage is full, files can not be updated or synced anymore!".
Many users may find this confusing.

So this solution does work, but is not really elegant if we want to use it more professionally.

What do you think?

[jancborchardt]

@farson2003 so what happens if you set it to 0?

[farson2003]

@jancborchardt
As Randolfcarter wrote: " when setting the quota to 0, then leaving and returning to the Users page, it gets set back to "Default"

[jancborchardt]

Ok, I guess @schiesbn or @blizzz need to check this out. :)

[schiessle]

Indeed '0' was converted to 'default'. I changed the code to make it possible to set the user quota to zero. See Pull request #3244.

@farson2003 With ownCloud5 the yellow message only appears if a user tries to upload a file, informing him that he doesn't have enough free space. I think that should be fine.

[the-question]

I don't know if I must create a new issue or not.
I have a very close problem. Your merge doesn't solve it. I want to disable creation of files or folders to a user, and setting quota to 0 only prevent him from uploading a file or a folder, but if this user uses OwnCloud "New" button, he can always create something.
So, I want the same result as chmod -w on user's files folder.

P.S: Sorry for my english, I'm french. And sorry if I haven't post in the right place, please redirect me.
Thanks