Hide E-Mail of users from being shown in contacts-shortcut

Hello, I’ve just created a test-user. With this user I can see the E-Mail addresses of other users in nextcloud over the contacts-shortcut upper right side. But my primary account (group admin) has no E-Mail icon although I have an E-Mail address stored.
So my questions are:
What’s the reason why my E-Mail address is not being shown?
Is it possible to hide the E-Mail addresses from being shown to other users?

Edit: Forgot screenshot :confounded:
contacts-shortcut

The 2nd question was answered a half a dozen times. Please try a search. BTW, the Contacts menu is not related to the Contacts app.

Sure man but i didn’t found something under keywords like www.giyf.com/nextcloud+hide+email+address
If it was answered a half a dozen times, just link a thread.
All that I can find is to hide the list of usernames but that’s not what I want.

I already looked up in the forum and i saw that some guys have a lock beside their personal settings:

I miss such a setting.

@anon99252149 scary, with an existing account there is no privacy setting for the E-Mail address available but with a test account I have the menu option :open_mouth:

It’s really bad that I have to activate the federated cloud option for allowing users to share their data with a global and public addressbook. Otherwise I don’t have the option to set the E-Mail address from “Contacts” to “Private”

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hi there,

if people ask this often, doesn’t that mean that the concept of public mail adresses may be reviewed?

Greetings Matt

Hi there,

wich solution did you chose?

Greetings Matt

@anon made a nonsense comment, don’t care about this noob. He doesn’t exist anymore… It doesn’t address the contacts app, it’s a server-feature. It’s related to a problem if federated cloud-sharing is disabled. I’ve created an issue (https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/9638#issuecomment-404694454) which is marked as bug. Since mid-2018 nobody cares. Please comment on this issue to trigger development and process.

Thanks!

I looked into the code but did not really get it:
Wich piece of code would i need to change to create users with “private mail” by default?
Any idea?

Greetings

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Oh, that issue doesn’t handle default settings, it’s just about that the option to change your settings is not available, if you deactivated federation.

If you haven’t yet, check out this answer from another thread.

In my case, I needed to change it after the users were created. Impersonating each single user or changing all passwords and logging into their accounts was not a feasible option.

So I resorted to manually updating the DB. I anyone is in the same situation, the following might work to make the email private for all users:

  • Get the desired set of users. In my example, I use all
  • Iterate each uid and get the json data of their respective account from the database
  • Use jq to change email.scope from contacts to private.

So far so good, we now have the json we want to update the db with. But the tricky part for me was to update the db with the manipulated json string. I ran into encoding issues using postgres on the shell. So my solution was:

  • Create an SQL update statement for each UID using awk and saved it to a .sql file.
  • Run the update statements of the .sql through the db

IMPORTANT: Backup your DB before trying this!
Example code using postgres and docker/docker-compose:

docker-compose exec -T [DB_CONTAINER_COMPOSE] psql -tU [DB_NAME] -c "select uid from oc_accounts;" | 
    # Remove trailing newline that postgres adds for some reason.
    head -n -1 | 
    # iterate each UID from the last query
    while read line; do 
        # retrieve data of UID from DB 
        docker exec [DB_CONTAINER_FULL_NAME] \
            psql -tU [DB_NAME] -c "select data from oc_accounts where uid='$line';" | 
        # set email.scope to `private`
        jq --raw-output --compact-output -e '.email.scope = "private"' | 
        # create update statement using awk
        awk -v q="'" -v uid="$line" \
            '{ print "UPDATE oc_accounts SET data = " q  $0 q " WHERE uid = " q uid q ";" }'
    # redirect all update statements to a single .sql file
    done > update.sql

Ok, quite terrible, but at least it’s a “one” liner. Now if using docker:

docker cp update.sql [DB_CONTAINER_FULL_NAME]:/

And finally, execute the statement, after you made a backup of the DB and double checked the generated update.sql!

docker-compose exec nc-db psql -U [DB_NAME] -f /update.sql

Would be great if such simple tasks could be performed more productively with NC! Best solution: Don’t need to perform them at all; just make everything private by default except the username! Users can be informed that their personal info can be made public. But users can not be told “eerr…btw…your email is public. turn it private if you want, so that at least not any more users see it from now on.”

Puh I don’t dare to manually tamper with the database :slight_smile:

I dont know if you still help but a possible workaround with minimal effort is to comment/delete the code from the php :slight_smile:

But that would have an impact on the integry check and is not persistent. sed would be an option for the last issue but how to automatize?

integrity check will not be compromised if the code is commented ( i tested right now )

Dirt solution:

modify /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Contacts/ContactsMenu/ContactsStore.php on line 268
$entry->addEMailAddress($email);
to
// $entry->addEMailAddress($email);

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This commenting workaround, must be done for each NC upgrading?

yeah you’re right

Would it be possible to have an option in nextcloud settings to do the same and keep it like that after updates?