feat(core): Add option to disable creating an admin user when installing #53212
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👍 Makes sense because if you have a bad hoster without occ access you might get locked out with misconfiguration. |
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@come-nc I reverted some of the changes that were not necessary anymore. I did the casting because in a previous version I also ensured that no admin-user, admin-pass and admin-email values are passed if --disable-admin-user was passed |
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…loud >= 32 With nextcloud/server#53212 it is not longer necessary to specify a username and password for an initial admin account during installation.
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…loud >= 32 With nextcloud/server#53212 it is not longer necessary to specify a username and password for an initial admin account during installation.
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Summary
When using non-database backends it can be annoying being forced to create an admin user during the installation process. Admin users can still be created through LDAP, OIDC and so on, so it's really not necessary to have a user with a database backend. Having to create this admin user is an additional burden since a password needs to be set and it should neither be simple nor random.
I did not add this option to the web installer because I believe for a lot of people using the web installer it's the only way they are able to install Nextcloud (due to technical restrictions not abilities). Enabling this option would result in a "bricked" instance for them since there is no way they could create a user after installation in order to login.
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