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Experiment No.4

The document discusses user management in OwnCloud. It describes the different properties of user accounts like login name, full name, password, email, groups, quotas. It explains how to create a new user, reset passwords, rename or delete users. It discusses granting administrator privileges and different types of administrators. It also touches on managing groups and enabling custom groups through the OwnCloud market place. The conclusion states that the experiment studied how to do user management in OwnCloud and highlights some of its key benefits over Dropbox like hosting data on-premise, file versioning and an app store.

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Experiment No.4

The document discusses user management in OwnCloud. It describes the different properties of user accounts like login name, full name, password, email, groups, quotas. It explains how to create a new user, reset passwords, rename or delete users. It discusses granting administrator privileges and different types of administrators. It also touches on managing groups and enabling custom groups through the OwnCloud market place. The conclusion states that the experiment studied how to do user management in OwnCloud and highlights some of its key benefits over Dropbox like hosting data on-premise, file versioning and an app store.

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Experiment No.

4
Aim:-User Management in Own cloud.
Steps:
The Default View of Users on the OwnCloud Landing Page

Some Information about Own Cloud User Account Structure

User accounts have the following properties:


• Login Name (Username)
The unique ID of an own Cloud user, and it cannot be changed.
• Full Name
The user’s display name that appears on file shares, the own Cloud Web interface, and
emails. Admins and users may change the Full Name anytime. If the Full Name is not set it
defaults to the login name.
• Password
The admin sets the new user’s first password. Both the user and the admin can change the
user’s password at anytime.
• E-Mail
The admin sets the new user’s E-Mail. The user then get’s an E-Mail to set his Password.
Both the user and the admin can change the user’s E-Mail at anytime.
• Groups
You may create groups, and assign group memberships to users. By default new users are
not assigned to any groups.
• Group Admin
Group admins are granted administrative privileges on specific groups, and can add and
remove users from their groups.
• Quota
The maximum disk space assigned to each user. Any user that exceeds the quota cannot
upload or sync data. You have the option to include external storage in user quotas.
Creating a new user

Resetting Password

Renaming User
Deleting User

Granting Administrator Privileges

Own cloud has two types of administrator

• Own Cloud Administrators have full rights on your Own Cloud server, and can access and
modify all settings. To assign the Own Cloud Administrators role to a user, simply add them
to the admin group.

• Group Administrators. Group administrators have the rights to create, edit and delete users
in their assigned groups. Use the dropdown menus in the Group Admin column to assign
group admin privileges.
Managing groups

Enabling Custom Groups


Owncloud Market Place
Select ‘Collaboration’ as a category

Choose Custom Groups -> Install

Conclusion :- Thus we studied in learned how to do user management in own cloud. Own Cloud’s
main benefit is that it allows the institution to host the data on- premise while it provides Dropbox-like
functions to end users. Own Cloud has other features not supported in Dropbox such as file versioning, which
allows users to undelete and track changes made to the files or an app store.

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