Hi
I am settings up a new instance of Nextcloud to share files within the family. Each user (about a dozen) would need to have R/O access to their “own” folder (an only there) while a “super user” would be allowed R/W everywhere.
What would be the best practice to achieve this ? Nextcloud Server version 30.4
I’m not sure if I’ve understood you correctly, but I would recommend that you take a look at Groupfolders. Groupfolders can be set to read only.
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Thanks - not sure this is what I am looking for.
I’d like to have (if possible auto provisioned, something like the default home folder) a personal R/O share for each user. And I want that accessible to single super admin.
I feel there should be an easy way to achieve this but can’t figure it out for the moment (very new to the product, though).
For disclamer i’m not a nextcloud dev but i think what you want is the default behavior of nextcloud, each user have their personal folder in which only them can read and write.
And if you create a shared/grouped folder then other users that you choose can read/write in them.
But the admin can’t access their personal folder. maybe you can directly access the data folder of nextcloud with a privileged user (the one running the web server, www-data i think)
i hope this helps.
in theory that is correct,
although it is possible with the “impersonate app”;
which is very helpful for admins needing to support users.
unless “user encryption” is enabled the cloud admin can theoretically access users data.
Getting there 
My last two issues would be to make the personal share R/O (would there be any unwanted consequence in so doing ?) and having a “super user” that can access said personal shares.
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