Multiple account privacy
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Basically, what you want for this is end-to-end encryption (and I know a bit about this, it's literally my job to implement E2EE ^^).
The problem is that the nextcloud app that provides E2EE is bad, like really bad, like "my files just disappeared, i have no idea why" bad.
So, long story short, there is no simple way for you to provide this service to your friend with nextcloud with you not being able to look at their files.
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As an alternative, I know that https://www.seafile.com/ is a file storage solution which offers end2end encryption, but when I last tried it (admittedly a few years ago) the client software was
@mehdi I moved my file storage/sharing from Nextcloud to Seafile.
Nextcloud works well but is just bloat-ware if you don't use the collab features.
Seafile is working well for me.
Sadly self-hosted on another VPS instead of Cloudron at this stage (until some nice brave person packages it for Cloudron!)
Maybe I'm cheap and easy to please but client software (on Mac) works fine for me, as both syncing client and remote drive client.Having said all that, I haven't explored the E2E encryption on multi-user basis.
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@mehdi I moved my file storage/sharing from Nextcloud to Seafile.
Nextcloud works well but is just bloat-ware if you don't use the collab features.
Seafile is working well for me.
Sadly self-hosted on another VPS instead of Cloudron at this stage (until some nice brave person packages it for Cloudron!)
Maybe I'm cheap and easy to please but client software (on Mac) works fine for me, as both syncing client and remote drive client.Having said all that, I haven't explored the E2E encryption on multi-user basis.
@timconsidine said in Multiple account privacy:
Seafile is working well for me.
Sadly self-hosted on another VPS instead of Cloudron at this stage (until some nice brave person packages it for Cloudron!)Upvote here:
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/1237 -
Thanks for everyone for their input on this. I love the community here. It's really surprising to me that this functionality isn't clear/straightforward. I've moved forward with a straightforward solution. I just installed another instance of Nextcloud for my friend. A little clunky but it works. It's just my personal Cloudron server anyway.
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Thanks for everyone for their input on this. I love the community here. It's really surprising to me that this functionality isn't clear/straightforward. I've moved forward with a straightforward solution. I just installed another instance of Nextcloud for my friend. A little clunky but it works. It's just my personal Cloudron server anyway.
@Ropyro said in Multiple account privacy:
I just installed another instance of Nextcloud for my friend
If this relieves his privacy concerns... well. OK I guess
You are still the admin and can view the data..
(alt: There is no cloud, just other people's computers - Sticker by fsfe.org)But still, there must be a solution for this.
I don't want to believe Nextcloud has no good solution for this.. -
@Ropyro said in Multiple account privacy:
I just installed another instance of Nextcloud for my friend
If this relieves his privacy concerns... well. OK I guess
You are still the admin and can view the data..
(alt: There is no cloud, just other people's computers - Sticker by fsfe.org)But still, there must be a solution for this.
I don't want to believe Nextcloud has no good solution for this..@BrutalBirdie Ha -- it didn't. I figured out after I set it up I still had access to his files
