We have a cloud with 50 users and a few groups.
Not every user is in a group yet.
The groups have groupadmins, but this admins can not add an existing user to their group.
Is this a bug, or a feature?
would you like to give out some more information about your server?
No server, just a webspace.
Applist:
The current PHP memory limit is below the recommended value of 512MB.
Enabled:
- accessibility: 1.4.0
- activity: 2.11.0
- admin_audit: 1.8.0
- apporder: 0.10.0
- bruteforcesettings: 1.6.0
- calendar: 2.0.3
- cloud_federation_api: 1.1.0
- comments: 1.8.0
- dav: 1.14.0
- deck: 1.0.5
- event_update_notification: 1.0.2
- external: 3.5.0
- federatedfilesharing: 1.8.0
- federation: 1.8.0
- files: 1.13.1
- files_external: 1.9.0
- files_mindmap: 0.0.22
- files_pdfviewer: 1.7.0
- files_rightclick: 0.15.2
- files_sharing: 1.10.1
- files_trackdownloads: 1.7.0
- files_trashbin: 1.8.0
- files_versions: 1.11.0
- files_videoplayer: 1.7.0
- firstrunwizard: 2.7.0
- groupfolders: 6.0.7
- impersonate: 1.5.2
- logreader: 2.3.0
- lookup_server_connector: 1.6.0
- nextcloud_announcements: 1.7.0
- notifications: 2.6.0
- oauth2: 1.6.0
- occweb: 0.0.7
- password_policy: 1.8.0
- polls: 1.4.3
- privacy: 1.2.0
- provisioning_api: 1.8.0
- registration: 0.4.7
- serverinfo: 1.8.0
- settings: 1.0.0
- sharebymail: 1.8.0
- spreed: 8.0.10
- support: 1.1.1
- survey_client: 1.6.0
- systemtags: 1.8.0
- tasks: 0.13.3
- text: 2.0.0
- theming: 1.9.0
- theming_customcss: 1.6.0
- twofactor_backupcodes: 1.7.0
- updatenotification: 1.8.0
- user_usage_report: 1.2.3
- viewer: 1.2.0
- workflowengine: 2.0.0
Anything else?
ummm do we already know which version is affected?
which php?
which database?
is this a shared hosting?
any logfile-errors?
any unsolved setup-hints?
Okay, thanks:
NC 18.0.7
Channel “stable” no update available
PHP 7.3.17
mySQL: 5.7.28
Yes, it is a shared hosting. See the link in the post before.
Errors:
- Invalid argument supplied for foreach() at /www/htdocs/xxx/cloud/apps/serverinfo/lib/Os.php#155
- Undefined variable: result at /www/htdocs/xxx/cloud/apps/serverinfo/lib/OperatingSystems/DefaultOs.php#173
- tempnam(): file created in the system’s temporary directory at /www/htdocs/xxx/cloud/lib/private/TempManager.php#127
- OCA\DAV\Connector\Sabre\Exception\Forbidden: No read permissions
But can you please give me an answer of this question:
Is it possible for a groupadmin to add an existing user to his group?
Or can he just create a new user?
you seem to have no permission(s) to read in that directory. could be a problem 
that should be possible but I am not sure (as I’m not working with groups)
I guess that’s only up to admins… but again not sure for 100%
This is a strange bug that affects an old admin user folder. Even after an occ files: scan it is still there. But what does this have to do with the group admin?
Can anyone confirm or refute that?
So can a group admins add existing users to their assigned groups?
The documentation is not clear there:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/15/admin_manual/configuration_user/user_configuration.html#granting-administrator-privileges-to-a-user
No, see the link above:
Group administrators have the rights to create, edit and delete users in their assigned groups.
that says it all. keywords “their assigned”
No, this refers to the fact that a group administrator, as opposed to a (super) administrator, has limited rights.
But I have just created users, groups and group administrators in a fresh NC.
Yes, the group admin can do what is in the documentation.
No, he cannot add any existing users to his group.
A user can also be the admin of a group of which he himself is not a member …
Now I just don’t understand the use case in which a group admin should be useful when the admin himself has to fill all groups.
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I see the advantage of this limitation on a privacy level.
I don’t want group admins to be able to add any user to his/her group.
It’s a bit annoying as it results in more work for ‘super admins’, but even though…