I’d like to use Cubby to make a Cloudron volume available to a project team. The volume is mounted over SSHFS from external storage (a Hetzner Storage Box).

Use case

One Cubby instance, with app access restricted to the project’s Cloudron group.
One group folder whose members are that Cloudron group, kept in sync through SCIM.
The group folder’s contents are the mounted volume, not a directory in /app/data.

Access would then be managed in one place: Cloudron groups. Users browse the files in Cubby. Automation accounts reach the same files over WebDAV with an app password. Nobody has to keep a separate permission list inside a file app, which is what makes Cubby so appealing compared to heavier options like Nextcloud.

Current situation

The group folder dialog only asks for a name and a slug. The folder is always created as /app/data/groups/<slug>, so there’s no way to point it at a volume attached under the app’s Mounts.

The workaround I’m planning is to replace the empty directory with a symlink from the web terminal:

rmdir /app/data/groups/<slug>
ln -s /media/<volume> /app/data/groups/<slug>

Feature request

When creating or editing a group folder, offer an optional storage location chosen from the volumes mounted into the app (/media/*). If one is set, the group folder serves that path instead of /app/data/groups/<slug>.