Multi-user setup for self-hosted openphoto installation

[cjlpa]

Hello,

since this Issue https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues/630 has been closed, but the core Issue itself has not been addressed, I'd like to re-open it (for "Wishlist" maybe?)

Is there a way to have a multi-user setup with the self-hosted server?

• separate logins
• separate albums/collections
• distinction between admin and regular user
• storage quota for regular users
• public / friends only / private collections set up by user
• admin can add/delete/change permission on all user pictures.

[hfiguiere]

This is a follow up to issue #630.

Setting as wishlist.

[jmathai]

Responses inline...

• separate logins (Yes, see #630)
• separate albums/collections (each instance has its own albums/collections/etc)
• distinction between admin and regular user (Yes, non "owners" are always guests)
• storage quota for regular users (No such feature exists for any type of user atm)
• public / friends only / private collections set up by user (Yes, groups facilitate this)
• admin can add/delete/change permission on all user pictures (Yes, the owner/admin can update permissions on any photo)

[jmathai]

Can we make this a meta issue and create separate issues for the items above which don't yet exist ... and mark them all as wishlist?

[cjlpa]

Hi,

Yes, please! I would like to clarify then on "separate logins" - I know about the possibility of manually adding more admins as in issue 630, but what i had in mind was actually a system to allow multiple users to register (with each user having a distinctive, private collection of photos)

[jmathai]

215 actually let's multiple users have their own OpenPhoto site on a

single installation.

[okpierre]

@jmathai when I looked at 215 it is marked closed. does that mean it is something I can test using the development version?

[jmathai]

@okpierre OpenPhoto sites are bound to the hostname. So if a second hostname resolves to the same codebase it's essentially its own OpenPhoto site. Does that make sense? You can do this as a Virtualhost in Apache using ServerAlias.

[cjlpa]

That's what I meant when adding this point to the "wishlist" - I don't want to add say 1000 DNS entries to allow for 1000 users on the same installation - all users should be able to log in on http://openphoto.example.org and have their own area... just to clarify!

[okpierre]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the request by @cjlpa is for the creation of user accounts.

I think there is confusion between multi site and multi user. Multi site (like wordpress wpms) allows for users to create their own hosted version of openphoto off one install while multi user allows for additional user under the main admin/owner. The users each have a set limit space under each of their account to use for storage. Currently, openphoto owner and 'admins' are the same and even upload as the owner.

Something similar: https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues/711#issuecomment-5805044

[jmathai]

@okpierre I think @cjlpa is referring to each user having their own site.

and have their own area... just to clarify!

We already support multi-site via subdomains. I'm not sure we can change this though (not technically, rather philosophically). See here for details http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/10537443380/namespacing-the-web-for-your-photos

It's important to note that we're not trying to build yet another photo gallery software. OpenPhoto is fundamentally different because the initial goals are different. We'll keep the discussion open but this is important to keep in mind.

[ioggstream]

I enabled multiple user simply adding them in the user table, but they have no write privilege. Maybe this could be enough for family websites.

[jmathai]

@loggstream can you clarify what you mean by multiple users? There's a bit of confusion in the terminology. Multi-user setup initially meant multiple users who have their own instance of an OpenPhoto site with a single installed codebase.

[ioggstream]

MultiUser: one code-base, multiple user logging in to the site.

AFAIU each site manages only one datadir: that's fine for now (just want to share my foto with my friends: I'll create them a read-only account).

[ioggstream]

A simple python script printing a multi-user string. Use at your own risk ;)

{{{

!/usr/bin/python

#

prints a mysql string used for creating

entries on MyOpenPhoto user table

#

from hashlib import sha1 import sys

get that value from ./src/configs/defaults.ini

salt = "change_me"

try: (mail,passw) = sys.argv[1:3] epassw = sha1(passw + "-" + salt).hexdigest()

print  """insert into mop_user(`id`,`password`,`extra`) VALUES ('%s', '%s','{"lastPhotoId":"","lastActionId":"","lastGroupId":"1","lastWebhookId":"","id":"%s","timestamp":"2011-05-18 18:58:16"}');"""  % (mail, epassw, mail)

except: print "usage: %s email password" % sys.argv[0] print exit 1 }}}

[JarrydHuntley]

I plus 1 this request. :) A site I could set up for my family would be great!

What does the above python script accomplish?

Thanks!

[ioggstream]

2013/4/4 JarrydHuntley notifications@github.com

What does the above python script accomplish?

just prints a mysql insert that adds a user account to the openphoto mysql database.

Peace, R.