allow prefilling login

[butonic]

I want to be able to send deep links into the gallery, that also prefill the username if the user is not logged in, sth like http://localhost/core/index.php?redirect_url=%2Findex.php%2Fapps%2Fgallery&user=guest

The guest account has quota zero and can only access the files and pictures apps.

@LukasReschke security nightmare?
@jancborchardt usability improvement?

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[LukasReschke]

We already support it via POST, so I see no problem by supporting GET as well => 👍

[jancborchardt]

I don’t really get it. Where would you get the link from?

[ghost]

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[karlitschek]

same question here. Is this a feature for our demo server? or what is the real world use-case?

[butonic]

What I want is to make our family access the images of Tim Friedrich as easy as possible: sending a password protected link. Unfortunately, oc does not allow sharing a group of files with a link. Only a single file or a folder. So I created a guest account 'guest' with a quota of 0 and we now share the best pictures with that account. Over the next weeks we will be adding/sharing new images daily.

Currently, I can create a deep link to the pictures app, so that when a user logs in he will be redirected an see nice seamless thumbnails: http://localhost/core/index.php?redirect_url=%2Findex.php%2Fapps%2Fgallery

I want to make that look nicer so I created an apache rewrite rule that redirects http://localhost/baby to http://localhost/core/index.php?redirect_url=%2Findex.php%2Fapps%2Fgallery. Much better. But still has room for improvement. With this PR I can make the redirect to http://localhost/core/index.php?redirect_url=%2Findex.php%2Fapps%2Fgallery&user=guest which will now also prefill the username.

I can now send a link like http://localhost/baby along with the password so my parents only need to figure out where to put the password.

Oh and we do have a customer that uses this to send sharing emails to other accounts that then don't need to enter their username.

[butonic]

could also be used by the activity app.

[jancborchardt]

The whole guest user thing is a big workaround. A way easier workaround for sharing some pictures is, well, just creating a new folder and putting all the pictures you want to share in there.

[butonic]

I don't want to duplicate the images. Anyway, think about an admin inviting new users. He might send around links with the username prefilled.

On 9. September 2014 08:27:46 MESZ, Jan-Christoph Borchardt notifications@github.com wrote:

The whole guest user thing is a big workaround. A way easier workaround
for sharing some pictures is, well, just creating a new folder and
putting all the pictures you want to share in there.

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[LukasReschke]

I agree with @butonic. That said, we already have this functionality. Switching from POST to REQUEST should not be that a big deal ;-)

[butonic]

OC password reset emails could also contain a link prefilling the username.

[jancborchardt]

Ok, I guess it’s useful for other usecases anyway.

[PVince81]

Makes sense 👍