user_external | 👥 External user authentication methods like IMAP , SMB | FTP library

user_external is a PHP library typically used in Networking, FTP applications. user_external has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Passwords are not stored locally; authentication always happens against the remote server. It stores users and their display name in its own database table users_external. When modifying the user_backends configuration, you need to update the database table’s backend field, or your users will lose their configured display name. If something does not work, check the log file at nextcloud/data/nextcloud.log. Warning: If you are using more than one backend or especially one backend more often than once, make sure that you still have resp. get unique `uid`s in the database. .