Guests

Create guest users which can only see files shared with them

Usage

1. Create a guest user by typing their email address in to the sharing dialog.
2. [Optionally] Set a display name for the guest user.
3. [Optionally] Set a language for the invitation email (otherwise the server's default language will be used).
4. The guest will receive an email invitation with a link to create an account. They only have access to files which are shared with them.

Restrictions on guest users

Apps

Administrators can set a whitelist of apps that guest users have access to.

By default the following are allowed:

• activity
• files_external
• files_sharing
• files_texteditor
• files_trashbin
• files_versions
• firstrunwizard
• gallery
• notifications

Hide other users

By default, guests will not be able to list other users in the system, if a guest user gets added to a group he will be able to list users within that group (and, for example, share files with those users).

Auto-convert guest users into full users

Guest users who eventually turn into full users (provided by any other user back end like SAML, LDAP, OAuth, database...) can be automatically converted on their first login, while keeping their shares.

Prerequisites

1. Nextcloud 18 or higher
2. target user needs to have the same email address as the guest user
3. config.php setting 'migrate_guest_user_data' => true,