NextCloud user sync/creation

[dnutan (Marc)]

There was an old discussion about cryptic usernames:

Nextcloud cryptic usernames

Yes, it happens with LDAP and AD. From Nextcloud manual: Nextcloud uses usernames as keys to store and assign data. In order to precisely identify and recognize users, each LDAP user will have a internal username in Nextcloud. This requires a mapping from Nextcloud username to LDAP user. The created username is mapped to the UUID of the LDAP user. The internal username is the identifier in Nextcloud for LDAP users. By default it will be created from the UUID attribute. The UUID attribute e…

@Andy_Wismer

As an old OwnCloud User I’d add the fact that the decision to use UUIDs was already made in OwnCloud, before the fork to NextCloud. Earlier, Usernames were used and visible in OwnCloud, then only these UUIDs. The reason was overlapping usernames, however that happened…