I barely use the Webinterface to login, once everything is configured, but when I do, I use a non Admin user.
It would be nice if we can configure that users should see update informations too.
They should, of course, not be able to install the update, but the message would be nice.
Iāve been on Linux for over a decade now (ah, good olā Dapper Drakeā¦)
not using privileges higher than the minimum necessary to achieve purpose.
Fair enough. I wasnāt asking to question whether what you were doing was a good thing or not, just to find out what your specific use case is. It does still seem odd to me though having partially elevated privileges (viewing of server administration notifications) to an unprivileged user.
Maybe another way of handling this could be to have an email / push notification be sent out to admin users when there is an administration event, so admins know to log in with an admin account just at that time. Then an unprivileged account can be used the rest of the time. Iām not talking about sending the contents of those notifications by the way (potential security risk), but just that there is a notification to be checked.
When you consider this product will be used corporately with potentially hundreds if not thousands of users, can you begin to imagine the support teams getting flooded with calls about an āupdate error on my files areaā?
Well, @ANT_Clouddoes say āIt would be nice if we can configure that users should see update informations too. [sic]ā so it seems that this isnāt something that would necessarily affect all users directly, and I would presume, not even be turned on by default.
This does seem though, like yet another call for a feature requiring extra settings to not get in the way of the vast majority of users, and potentially another step towards āconfiguration hellā. (Something UX people try to avoid, by avoiding potentially unnecessary settings that confuse/distract users from finding or getting done what they actually need).
Sending a notification in some form, to admins when something on the server needs attention though, seems like it would apply to a much larger segment of users while potentially addressing the need behind this usecase.
Trueā¦ Very true! On a side note, what would actually happen if someone without admin privileges (or access to the admin page) clicked on an admin notification? o.O
Arguably, configuration hell is better than minimalist hell, where the admin is frustrated at every turn (q.v. Gnome3 ā are you still using a Gnome desktop?).
I do, too ā where itās possible. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do, with the rush to āeverything on the web or through social mediaā. In this case, Nextcloud is already checking for updates, so why not use it?
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Adding the option to configure it wonāt stop the intern from enabling it though
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Shorten the chain on the intern ā¦[quote=āBugsbane, post:9, topic:1221ā]
On a side note, what would actually happen if someone without admin privileges (or access to the admin page) clicked on an admin notification? o.O
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It hides the notification, if anything at all. Least surprise ā itās a notification.
The very first time I installed Linux, I installed Ubuntu with both Gnome and KDE. KDE recognised I didnāt have some codec I needed and told me, where Gnome didnāt and so on that extremely limited experience, I used KDE and have ever since (for different reasons). Let the Gnome Vs KDE flamewar commenceā¦
That said, the 5 minutes that I once tried a Gnome 3 desktop, I rather liked itā¦ thatās not to say it wouldnāt drive me crazy for some reason after 15 minutes though!
Why the Hell are you letting an Intern work as an Admin in you Systems ?
There is no need for this, as there is already a notification service included. The Change Iām requesting is to make this available to a selected group of users
Admin Email Notification from the system would also be good, and maybe even better for me personally