Changing encryption from master key file to user key file with recovery key file encryption

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Is it still possible to change to the user key file encryption? The documentation says:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/18/admin_manual/configuration_files/encryption_details.html

While the master key encryption had to be enabled explicitly by calling ./occ encryption:enable-master-key in older versions of Nextcloud it is now the default encryption mode in newer versions including Nextcloud 16.

While the user key encryption has been enabled by default in older versions of Nextcloud it now has to be enabled explicitly in newer versions including Nextcloud 16 by calling ./occ encryption:disable-master-key .

But the command

occ $ encryption:disable-master-key

has the output

aborted.

Is it still possible to switch to user key encryption? If yes, how?
Thank you! :slight_smile:

2

It is not possible to disable the master key with the OCC web interface addon.
You need root-access to your nextcloud instance and navigate to /var/www/nextcloud

cd /var/www/nextcloud

and then

sudo -u www-data php occ encryption:enable
sudo -u www-data php occ encryption:disable-master-key