By: Evan Kohout user 30 Oct 2017 at 6:12 p.m. CDT

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Hi, I am using the nextcloud plugin and just got that working nicely with my Gluu Server CE 3.1.1. The single login/logoff and authentication parts all work really well. However, i am running into the issue of authentication from within the nextcloud app itself. For example, If you are an 'admin' level user in nextcloud, and make a change from the admin page, it will prompt you to enter you password. This fails authentication everytime when Gluu plugin is used for authentication. Is there any way around this? What password would i use for local auth if i authenticate everytime for every user with Gluu? Is this a Gluu issue or something i should raise on the NextCloud forums? thanks

By Michael Schwartz Account Admin 31 Oct 2017 at 9:48 a.m. CDT

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Interesting issue. We're not Nextcloud experts, so we probably didn't look at this feature. We'll have a look. It may take us some time... be patient.

By Jajati Badu Account Admin 01 Nov 2017 at 3:55 a.m. CDT

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Hi Evan, We tried the same situation not getting any issue. Could you please provide the steps to reproduce this issue? Jajati

By Evan Kohout user 01 Nov 2017 at 12:42 p.m. CDT

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Hi, So to be clear, what you did was spin up a new gluu server CE instance, spin up a nextcloud instance, enabled the gluu plugin for nextcloud, registered it as a client with gluu server, then created a user, logged out the local user, then logged in with the newly created gluu federated identity. Is that correct? You must then give that new federated identity the role of 'admin' in nextcloud. Then, once that new user is an admin, try enabling or adding an app. Changing something within the admin console of nextcloud. It(nextcloud) will prompt you to enter your password. What i am finding is that from this scenario, that nextcloud password prompt is not authenticating me with my Gluu created users' password. Meaning, the password that i used to authenticate into Nextcloud with is not being accepted at the admin console password prompt when a change is made. -evan

By Evan Kohout user 10 Nov 2017 at 5:52 p.m. CST

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Any update on this? I am not sure what additional detail i can provide on the issue. The admin console password prompt, when a change is made as an admin user, is not accepting my federated identities password from gluu. However, i won't rule out that this might be a nextcloud issue. I just thought i would first attack it from a gluu perspective. This is preventing me from really rolling out the use of Gluu within my org. Also, a separate issue, the gluu authentication does not work with the nextcloud iphone and android app. That auth talks directly to the nextcloud instance for auth and does not appear to be making any re-direct, but that is a separate issue and i will file a separate ticket for that. -evan

By Jajati Badu Account Admin 11 Nov 2017 at 2:57 a.m. CST

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Hi Evan, Sorry for the late reply. We were trying to reproduce the issue on different situations. However we were not able to reproduce this. The NextCloud version we tried is 11.0 and Ubuntu 16.04 > Also, a separate issue, the gluu authentication does not work with the nextcloud iphone and android app. That auth talks directly to the nextcloud instance for auth and does not appear to be making any re-direct, but that is a separate issue and i will file a separate ticket for that. Sure please create a separate issue for this. Thanks, Jajati

By Evan Kohout user 11 Nov 2017 at 3:06 a.m. CST

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Hi Jajati, Thanks for the reply. Do you know of any plans for you guys to release a version of the plugin for nextcloud 12? Thats the version that i'd really like to use, but the gluu plugin only states support for 11. -evan

By Jajati Badu Account Admin 11 Nov 2017 at 5:07 a.m. CST

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Hi Evan, We are currently working on next version of Gluu SSO plugin for different applications. We will add this request in our list and will update you once the plugin is ready to use in NextCloud 12 Thanks, Jajati

By Michael Schwartz Account Admin 11 Nov 2017 at 1:51 p.m. CST

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No ETA for update Nextcloud plugin. Maybe someone from the community can contribute it (hint...)