Managing users lifecycle in Nextcloud¶

It is pretty easy to create accounts in Nextcloud, so users can start to use the platform, create and share content, data, information.

But when a user is leaving the organization, things can get tricky, especially if this user has many shares hanging around.

This article aims to provide a few guidelines, good practices to manage your users lifecycle in Nextcloud, and their data, and solve situations like:

• mainy active Nextcloud users are in reality inactive from an AD/LDAP perspective (remnants). Those users cannot access Nextcloud anymore.
• users are gone but still own important shares/data actively accessed by other users