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FollowSymLinks enabled \
FollowSymLinks enabled \
Group www \
Group www \
PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/owncloud/:/tmp/</nowiki>
PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/owncloud/:/tmp/ \
PublicAccess global \
UserAccess wr-group-rd-everyone
</nowiki>
Shall we include your iBay settings on the front page of the how-to, and why these settings are applied? [HF]
* Shall we include your iBay settings on the front page of the how-to, and why these settings are applied? [HF]
** Sure. As for the reasoning:
*** AllowOverride: because until I added this, owncloud complained about .htaccess not working, and consequent security issues.
*** FollowSymLinks: well, we may not need this. I was originally trying to set it up symlinked to the git downloads in another location.
*** Group: I *think* this maintains useable file ownership and access rights through an execution of "signal-event ibay-modify" - at least it has been working for me for Wordpress.
*** PHPBaseDir: per your note.
** I'd suggest adding the other settings that get things going (I've added these to the block above)
*** PublicAccess global
*** UserAccess wr-group-rd-everyone
** I will test in the coming week whether "FollowSymLinks" is required or not.
===IMAP Authentication===
Configure owncloud to authenticate against an IMAP server
====Enable and Configure IMAP Authentication====
# Login to your running owncloud configuration as an administrator
# Enable the app named "External user support" <br />Note: "External user support" is included with owncloud as an "Internal app". There is an older add-on app named "IMAP user backend" that did not work for me.
# Edit <owncloud>/config/config.php and insert the text below inside the $CONFIG array
#* in front of the last closing parenthesis in the file (make sure there's a comma at the end of the preceding entry)
#* Replace "mail.mydomain.tld" with your mail server name or IP address
#* Remove "/novalidate-cert" if your chosen mail server uses a signed SSL certificate):
<nowiki> 'user_backends' =>
array (
0 =>
array (
'class' => 'OC_User_IMAP',
'arguments' =>
array (
0 => '{mail.mydomain.tld:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}',
),
),
),</nowiki>
When done, users will be able to login to your owncloud web interface using their mail server username and password.
More information can be found here: http://owncloud.org/support/custom-user-configuration/
====Problems====
* Users who login using IMAP Authentication are not automatically added to the owncloud "oc_users" table. Consequently, they are not offered as options when other users want to share files with them.
* IMAP authenticated users will be unable to connect using the owncloud client sync program.
* If your IMAP server allows alternative username syntax, owncloud will create a separate account for each username format that allows successful authentication. That is, if your IMAP server allows users to optionally include or omit the domain name, you might create a user account entry for "xyzuser@mail.mydomain.tld", then find that the user always logs in using simply "xyzuser", which succeeds during the IMAP authentication, but is a different account within owncloud.
=====Allow Sharing with IMAP Users=====
To allow sharing with your IMAP users, you need to manually add the each IMAP user account to the oc_users table using commands like those below at a shell prompt on your SME server:
mysql owncloud
insert into oc_users (uid,password) values ('xyzuser@mail.mydomain.tld','*');
* '''owncloud''': replace with the name of the database you created for owncloud
* '''xyzuser@mail.mydomain.tld''': replace with the exact login string used by the user when they login
=====Using the Owncloud Client=====
In order for an IMAP-authenticated user to configure the owncloud client sync program, s/he must:
* login to the web interface
* open his/her personal settings
* "change" the password in owncloud to match the password on the IMAP server.
