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I've just finished configuring a Nextcloud server running on Apache2. It's the latest version. This is the first time I set up such a server.
While I was fiddling with the settings I created a non-admin account (two accounts including me) and I put myself and this account in an additional group, called "Database", with the intention to give the users who are in this group acess to a database file. Among the settings for users (columns), it lets me set a value I found rather confusing: "Group admin for". It lets me select only the Database group for this entry. I tried to set it for me and I didn't see any difference. What does this thing do? What does actually happen if I set it for a user?
Manchineel
Posted 2018-01-03T19:02:27.197
Reputation: 479
""What does this thing do?" If you assigned a user to be a group administrator, that user would be able to add/remove users, into that particular user group. It also seems a group administrator has the ability to delete other users also.. As for the reason, it only allows you to select a single group, you only have a single user group currently.
– Ramhound – 2018-01-03T19:23:26.377@Ramhound so, does it mean that a group admin can put in and remove people from a specific group or array of groups while not being able to delete the accounts from Nextcloud? – Manchineel – 2018-01-03T21:25:47.623
Based on the open bug report provided, it appears if you make them a group administrator of a group, they can actually delete the user altogether – Ramhound – 2018-01-03T21:50:37.740
@Ramhound it does not look very useful then. – Manchineel – 2018-01-04T15:08:15.397