Multiple users

[cjohnsonuk]

Does a single instance of Photoprism support multiple users? I'd like to enable my family to use photoprism all from one installation but everybody should have their own private repository for the photos but with the option to share, just as can be done with google photos at the moment

[lastzero]

We're working on this. For now, you may run multiple instances and mount a common, shared subfolder in each originals folder for pictures that everyone should see like /photoprism/originals/shared.

[lastzero]

Also you can add multiple admin users for a single library, but that's not good if you want separate libraries.

[jojo-gfx]

Ah, yes, worte downward as comment ... yes! So we could offer users several content as guest with no login directly. At time it works, but at first you have to enter the site per shared link, otherwise you will only get the login screen.
So it already works, but at time only per hit as shared link. ;)

[BradFMJ]

Also you can add multiple admin users for a single library, but that's not good if you want separate libraries.

Im lost. I just setup photoprism and looking to give family access to view.

[lastzero]

https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/

[AndreBlin]

Multi-user registration is the feature I am still missing. Other than that, I don't miss anything at all.

[graciousgrey]

It's currently in progress: #98

[JCapriotti]

It's currently in progress: #98

Are there any incremental updates planned for #98? I get that it is a large undertaking to implement properly.... just curious if something like just adding multi-user support with all users being equal could be done, with other needs added later?

[lastzero]

An in-depth response that goes into all the details and history of the feature request would require much more time than I have available, precisely because of the many requests everyone is waiting to see implemented.

In summary, we will make the new authentication options available to select business customers first because they really need them (home users can simply set up one or more additional instances), have clearly specified environments and requirements, and don't need extensive documentation that is appropriate for all types of users, which will cost us a lot of time to create. This is not what you want to do in the summer while others are on vacation.

That being said, we understand multi-user support is a key feature that many have been waiting for a very long time. Consequently, questions come in and some wonder what's actually going on with us (as if the release notes weren't impressive enough).

Be aware that for us as maintainers, the most important task right now is to improve funding by attracting sponsors and commercial users, which requires first and foremost a decent website and feature comparison, not to quickly release undocumented features to a specific user base with sufficient technical expertise.

[isisyodin]

Same here. I am dumping my Synology to go full Unraid. Of all the alternate solutions to Photos and Moments in Synology, Photoprism is the best one for my needs. Piwigo a close second. Multi-user is the one thing that is making me keep my old Synology for now. My Wife, son and I have very different photo preferences, so it is quite important for us to be able to keep most photos separated but have the option to merge some photos to a common database as well.

[dewi-ny-je]

I think that even having a simple non-admin user with read only access would be enough, since some family members may inadvertently cause troubles.

[pkmccarthy]

It is really strange void in the photo server space. I have similar requirements that, to me seem normal :) and I see the benefit of paying for such features:

• multiple users, each having their own personal space with facial recognition
• a common/shared space that the admin can control "who can see what" by either user, album or named group
• shared space should also have facial recognition but only show pictures users has access to (read only like dewi stated)
• users can created shared links at will (if permission given) for photos they can access..

Like other users, I want to put all my photos in one area as I coalesce and clean them up (personal upload kept personal until I move them naturally), share them with the immediate family and extended family - but there is no reason for everyone to see "my college pictures" as someone else put it on similar threads..

Plex has a pretty good solution - in that, I can create separate NAMED areas, each pointing to their own root folder (in my example, I have concert videos separated from movie videos and I can share or not share those two named areas independently [not a great example but works as an example])... so, I can drill to each named area and see what I can see, or I can go to the home page and ask PLEX to show me all that I can see. seamless..

I use Synology Photos now, only because I cannot find anything else - and the limit is: I have to give the family admin rights to even SEE THE SHARED FACIAL RECOG albums - needless to say, I have snapshotting turned on for those folders)

[dewi-ny-je]

My suggestion was much simpler and essential: one admin account and one non-admin account which cannot alter anything: photos, settings, ...
I don't mind people within the family seeing my photos, but older parents WILL make mistakes and the first basic need is to protect against that.
Sharing stuff is cumbersome if it's not one or two from time to time!
Multiple actual users is one level up and changes the structure of the software so I understand that developers may want to think twice about it and about how to structure the project.
But one read-only, see everything user is much easier.

[mikebousquet]

Hi photoprism team,
Just want to get some news about this feature (Multi-user support). I know you guys are working hard on this but I wanted to know how far you are and if you foresee "the end of the tunnel" ?
I know this is a major feature and this probably means major architectural changes ! So good luck and thank you again for this awesome application ;-)

[melyux]

Like @isisyodin said, it would be sick to have a shared library between users that multiple users can contribute to from their own libraries, akin to the new iCloud Shared Photo Library. The shared library flows naturally from having multiple users.

[surfrock66]

I really appreciate the responses to this feature; it's clear you all intend to get it working, and as the commercial customers fund the development, releasing it to them first pushes the project forward. As a home user that can't contribute financially, is there anything I can do to help push this feature? Is there an unstable testing branch that you need users willing to run in a closed beta? Do you need someone willing to test tying this into ldap or saml?

[lastzero]

To be precise, we are talking about potential customers. So it's not like we are already well funded and don't need sponsors. First and foremost, we are on a mission to protect your freedom and privacy. We started this project for individuals (and for us, although we don't have time to use our own software now).

It's important to know that most investors don't fund consumer open source applications, and that the kind of software you develop for large corporations is different than what's useful and maintainable for home users. That partly explains why there weren't similar apps before. Even now, the competition is low compared to other areas. Since we ourselves - regular people without rich parents paying for everything - not only bear the risk but also do most of the work (still very grateful for the pull requests we receive and other contributions!), our focus is generally not on giving stuff away for free. It's simply not our mission, even though the licence permits.

VC-funded startups may do that, but with the current market conditions, you can see them going out of business...

If we don't take care of proper funding or shift our focus completely from private users to businesses, it could ultimately ruin our mission. Personally, I'd be back to doing what I did years ago as an IT consultant for large enterprises and VC-funded startups - except I would have been working for free all those years in between.

A non-open license would also compromise our mission and exclude users who don't have any money, so we're trying to find a balance here. It's difficult, and it's a big challenge on top of all the development work we do every day.

Features that make it easy for other companies to monetize our work ("How can we change the branding?") will generally not be freely available for that very reason, and not because we're afraid of private users who might not become sponsors. We also believe that the type of sharing and user management that private users need is somewhat different from the needs of commercial users.

As soon as we have something that can be tested in a meaningful way, we will of course let you know! At the moment, for example, it is mainly about security, which is a dry topic and is also difficult to judge without much experience. As a user, you will ideally not notice anything, except that nothing is broken.

[lastzero]

You are now invited to help test the latest preview build! Before you upgrade, be sure to read the full release notes. We appreciate your patience and feedback on the changes.

[haldi4803]

i agree that Multiple Users with multiple gallerys might be a bigger project.
But then what about multiple Logins?
not all people can remember the same password, havin multiple logins accessing the same pcitures would already help there.
Or would that be like 80% of the work already done?

Edit: i see i'm too late...
#98

[lastzero]

That's possible.

[jojo-gfx]

A suggestion from me (porfessional developer and database expert) to the design of usermanagement-system:
Multiusermanagement is not so a big problem, but the actual design is no good idea to manage only user types and use the server-programming for select what user can do, see, and so on. This is really old thinking from times of basic programming (this code will lead you into the hell). :( (I only take a short look into the database... correct me, if I'm wrong)
A new software need to think at first from right-management what is building the base (the database!) and if it is sheme of the DB done correct you nearly need no code in the server (PHP or what ever) programming itself.
But, the good news, it's not to late! If you implement this system directly in the database you can also kill the most code for usermanagement from the lines in the code and only insert a few same standard lines into the code, where the database has to check, what users right are.
So you have a massive ammount of data (many good filled link-tables) in the database, but a small code. Databases are made for big datastructures and handle them without stress, so all will be ok, if you do it so.
The goal: You can ignore big data and you only have to hold the code clean => usermanagement will be a small easy thing!

Every think so: Not the app-code is the base of your project ... never! ... because, the dataBASE is the base!
Because, not your little app code should big data, the proffessional here is the DatabaseManagementSystem like MariaDB (the most programmers don' t know or don't like to know, what a database really is... uaaah! )

By the way, also without this at time the functions working great and the design is really nice. Don't know a soo good software as alternative to google-photos at time! Without need of multiusersystem is good usable (only any brainbreaking logics are still todos :D ).

[valicm]

Currently testing Photoprism, and first to say great job!

Secondly, I am looking from a maybe different perspective, or not. I like having multiple accounts, but it's not a deal breaker.
What I am missing is the read-only mode, aka guest account. Someone who can browse public images. Don't want that anyone (my kids in this scenario) can do around pictures accidentally changes.
(Not sure what the state is in #98 or exactly what has been agreed upon.)

PASSWORD MODE:
Guest account - login with guest/guest -> read actions only - browse, search (not any update actions, etc..)
Regular users - as is now.

PUBLIC MODE:
Guest account - a bit redundant. It's the public mode, only read actions.
Regular Users - they still can log in and be in password mode

For any mode, uploads of any regular users are public. Unless they mark an item as private.
A private list is only private pictures from that user, and the menu item only shows to that user.

Is it then needed to have multiple users who are fully fledged users? Not sure. Judging by the project, I would say it was not intended to go that way.
I would be happy with basic distinction user <-> guest, which now is lacking. And that private section is private.
Currently, even if an item is flagged private, you can open it under private without restrictions, which does not make sense.

[jojo-gfx]

Would suggest a really guest view, so no login is neccessary and is usable as display window or normal gallery for special things, also with several albums and so on. In my case it is, what I'm searching a long long time...
At time it works, if you use a shared link, so you can view all shared albums. So it would be nice, it would work without entering the site with shared link to e gallery. :D
Also would cool the map would work in all cases.

[graciousgrey]

This sounds very similar to #669

[jojo-gfx]

Ah, wrote in wrong section here:#98 (comment)

Have any suggestions and warnings about usermanagement, guest-functions wrote there.

Sorry, not seen was the wrong place and sorry for bad english, I'm no native english speaker. :D

[jojo-gfx]

What feature especcially do you mean?
I also waiting on it... :D

[lastzero]

👉 https://docs.photoprism.app/release-notes/#november-2-2022

[keesfluitman]

ye i read that. So it means it was in for a bit. I thought maybe there is a beta where it is in yet.

[lastzero]

Looking at the release notes, you'll find that we also have to take care of many other issues and provide support. We don't release new features when existing features are not working properly. We'll let you know once additional roles have been released / can be tested.

[keesfluitman]

i think that is really great. Best to make things work well. I just thought I saw it was in somewhere and was curious.

[sorryusernameisalreadytaken]

Will every user be able to get his own WebDav later on**?**

I ask because a buddy of mine, who is fortunately an Android developer, is writing a webdav uploader that will allow me to at least always upload all photos from my Android phone without a ready-made photoprism Android app.

@lastzero you had advised me in another ticket to just use the PWA. Yup, it's very good!

[graciousgrey]

Will every user be able to get his own WebDav later on**?**

This will likely depend on the user role. Users with e.g. upload rights to a library can (optionally) get WebDAV access to /originals or a subfolder within originals. Users with read-only rights are more likely not to get WebDAV access to a library.

[Avsynthe]

Love your work! Will this include support for SSO solutions like SAML or OIDC?

[lastzero]

This is planned. However, in order to fund development, it will initially only be available to sponsors and business customers.

[nikhilhurule]

love the work by the devs , can anyone have any idea how long till the release of Multi user login ?

[lastzero]

Thank you! We are currently in a closed beta phase with selected features for testing. Providing an exact date for general availability (early next year?) and a detailed list of features is unfortunately not possible yet.

That being said: The bottleneck holding us back is our team size. As much as users want to see features released, that's only possible if we improve our funding. So we have to work on that at the same time, which also requires development resources, otherwise we have too many manual processes that don't scale. We also need to continue to improve the documentation, because there have been complaints that it's not clear enough and that we don't provide enough information.

[ScuttleSE]

Will the multiple user-feature be something that will be available to the open source version, or will it be put behind a subscription model?

[ScuttleSE]

I have no problem with Photoprism, or any other open source developer for that matter, monetizing their software. None at all. Like I mentioned earlier, my initial question mentioned "the open source version" when it should have said "the community version".

What I disagree with, is the stance that most developers sees open source as a way to monetize their software.

Other than that, I'm more or less in the same situation as you. There are multiple "self-hosted image galleries" out there, none of them are quite "there" yet, at least from my perspective.

Right now I'm going to migrate away from Photoprism onto something else, It has become clear I'm not wanted.

[lastzero]

Please keep in mind that "monetize" is completely the wrong word in our situation, as we are severely underfunded for the work we are already doing, and we don't have an external investor either. Comparing us to a VC-funded startup that gives away free stuff to get more growth makes no sense at all. As our FAQ clearly states, your support is necessary to protect the project as a whole and make it sustainable. We didn't take on all this unpaid work with the goal of making a big profit. Nor to make friends or "look good" as some seem to assume. If you believe that, you are completely misguided.

[lastzero]

For reference, this is our original funding page: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism-docs/blob/911723a7f1ddae47069eddf9d47beb7767eb1942/docs/funding.md

This statement should be pretty clear and I hope that our current docs and FAQs convey the same spirit. If not, I will be happy to update them to avoid any misunderstandings. We have managed to make much more functionality available for free than we ever thought possible. This is a miracle considering our non-existent funding, and that it was never one of our goals to offer software that you don't have to pay for.

[lastzero]

It has become clear I'm not wanted.

I even gave you free advice on how to implement a workaround and what other features we are planning that could be used for your use case. However, yes, it is unwanted to waste our time with a pointless discussion that ignores most of what I have written here or what is in our FAQs.

[GuruOz]

Will the multiple user-feature be something that will be available to the open source version, or will it be put behind a subscription model?

wHy DoN'T YoU gIvE mE fREEE STUFFFFFF

why dont you see the efforts that the devs have put in and actually support them, instead of being an entitled snob

[hubmos]

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this question, but I think its relevant to the topic. I am using Photoprism on my homeserver and I think it is an amazing application. Now I am only using it for my own personal photos, but my wife would like to upload her own photos too. Me and my wife have our separate photo-albums, so in an ideal world we would be able to see all the photos from both our albums, but I would also be able to filter out only my own album. As I have understood I can add an admin-user for my wife in console, so that we have separate accounts. If my wife then uses her account to import photos, will it be tracked that these photos was uploaded from her account or will they just blend in with my own photos?

I know this is a feature in development, I just wanted to know if this is the route to go for my use-case or if Im better of running multiple instances, or maybe you see a solution for my use-case that I dont see.

Thanks for any assistance, and thank you so much for your brilliant work.

[lastzero]

As I have understood I can add an admin-user for my wife in console, so that we have separate accounts. If my wife then uses her account to import photos, will it be tracked that these photos was uploaded from her account or will they just blend in with my own photos?

Our latest version keeps track of who has uploaded files. However, if you add them directly to the file system or use WebDAV instead of the Web Upload, it won't work. The same goes for the sync feature, as remote accounts are currently not associated with a single user.

Also, making the file ownership visible and searchable in the user interface is a process that has just begun. What makes it especially difficult are stacks that can theoretically contain files from multiple people.

[atlas-shrugged08]

Hi @lastzero Michael, Apologies in advance if this has been answered before but I read through the discussion thread and understood that in the community edition, I can create a second user via CLI and assign it a role.

• I looked at CLI help and can see that i can create the user and assign it one of two roles - admin, visitor. is that right?
• I tried the visitor role but The visitor user cannot login - is that right?
• What I could not find in the discussion thread or in CLI help is if its possible to create a user who can see everything but cannot see private pics. (i.e. the private section). Is that possible today or will be in the future (in the community edition)?

Thank you for creating this wonderful app.

[atlas-shrugged08]

Thanks again for the response(s). Have a great weekend!

[lastzero]

While you are here: How would you name such a role?

[atlas-shrugged08]

Thanks for asking for an opinion.

• guest or
• family or
• child
  (speaking from my purpose of hiding some pics. Don't want the kiddo to see them but want her to see everything else and search for anything she'd like to)

[lastzero]

Family sounds great for the use case and also implies that you trust them enough to see almost everything.

[atlas-shrugged08]

Indeed. Very well described.

[t18n]

Hi @lastzero, thank you for your (and the contributors)'s hard work to make the project awesome. Multi-user/secured shared link is a very important feature, and personally I am happy to support the project financially.
Right now, I cannot see any information related to the feature in this page.
https://www.photoprism.app/kb/personal
Also, I am hosting Photoprism on Pikapods, do you have a guide on how to update the instance with subscription to activate new features. And since Pikapods is recommended by Photoprism, when can we have the feature supported via the GUI, as we cannot access CLI?

[MnM001]

"user management is currently only available from the command line"

Is there a guide for this?
Will need to see what it does (and what it does not do) and how to use it before I jump in an support the project financially.

This is the one missing feature that stops me from changing my current solution and move to Photprism and supporting you guys financially.
It looks like implementing this is a bit of a battle (the first post in this thread is almost 1.5 years old).

[lastzero]

Because everyone is waiting for us to release feature after feature for free, this is why we don't have a team to answer each and every question instantly and why things take time. If you decided to wait, then we ask for patience.

[graciousgrey]

Please note that the multi-user functionality is not yet officially released. The feature matrix as well as the documentation will be updated as soon as we have a release candidate.

[MnM001]

I can wait as I am using another product right now and no need to change yet.

Would you care to expand on the below please? (when you get a chance of course, its not super urgent).

_"user management is currently only available from the command line"

Is there a guide for this?
Will need to see what it does (and what it does not do)_

[lastzero]

As shown in the public documentation, there is built-in command help for the related subcommands:

• https://docs.photoprism.app/getting-started/docker-compose/#examples

You can also run photoprism help to see a command help like with any other software. A web UI will follow, but is not currently available.

New features will first be introduced and tested together with our PhotoPrism+ Members and only later made available to everyone.

You can find the same information in the previous answers on this page, which is why I didn't answer this question again.

[MnM001]

Ahhh OK.

Looks like I was wrong about the meaning of "user management is currently only available from the command line".
Seems that it doesn't mean that a user can be managed (added, removed, setup passwords and permissions amongst other things) from the CLI.
It actually means "New features will first be introduced and tested together with our PhotoPrism+ Members and only later made available to everyone." - at some point in the future.
Got it.

[lastzero]

Both is actually true. Roles and permissions are new, the rest should work. Ideally use our development preview for testing.

[insomnia417]

Are there any new developments ?

[lastzero]

https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/search?q=98&type=commits

[naibaF5891]

Over command line it is possible with:
photoprism users add
worked perfectly fine for me. Thank you!

[Parmenide78]

Thank you very much, for the very quick answer, and by the way, thank you very much for this good job :-)
I have tried "sudo docker compose exec photoprism photoprism users add -r user -p mysecret -n bob -r viewer" and I have "ERRO[2023-03-25T20:43:28Z] role 'viewer' is invalid". What I have done wrong ?

[lastzero]

As mentioned on our website and in the community chat, this is available only with our upcoming stable PhotoPrism Plus release. We need to ask for a little more patience. Thank you!

[bergutman]

Hello! How do I add a user to my Photoprism Pro instance hosted on PikaPods? I don't believe that they enable cli access. 🤔

[graciousgrey]

👉 https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/
If you don't see the users section in the navigation you might need to restart PhotoPrism on PikaPods once

[bergutman]

🤦My bad! The problem was a very niche CSS issue and a general lack of caffeine. With desktop mode enabled on a mobile bowser (surface duo w/ chrome) the additional settings pages are inaccessible unless you expand the sidebar first.

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[BlueskyFR]

Hi! I am not sure to be understanding this correctly: so currently multiple users can be created but they all share a common library, right?
Is there any plans to avoid hosting 15 times PhotoPrism on a single server to achieve that?

[graciousgrey]

Yes, a library manager is planned, for more information see

• https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/libraries/
• https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/

[sunbeam60]

This is 🔥

[dannyadair]

As this is the discussion page for "the hottest issue" #98
which is marked as currently in progress https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/projects/5?card_filter_query=shar
and also in the light of some comments around Free and Open Source software above,
I would like to write a few words here.

Sharing some/certain photos with others is, of course, an important feature.
I would mainly like to share photos with my mother (I'm in New Zealand, she's in Germany) so that she can see what her grandchildren are up to.
Having a central place for friends and family to also upload and share back their photos with you is even better.

In December I finally fully "de-googled" and now I use Syncthing to connect my phone(=camera) to a PhotoPrism docker instance on a VPS. It's really a great piece of software, except for the sharing part :)

Every now and again I checked into PhotoPrism; I noticed the split in terminology with the paid edition(s), and I was curious about its future, and where this particular feature would end up.
Why? Honestly, because I was hoping to "get away with the free version", at least long enough to confirm it works for me and has the value that a subscription would cost me.

After reading through various Github issues, I changed my stance completely and signed up for PhotoPrism Plus.

To those who are thinking "I would get a PhotoPrism+ subscription if it had this feature", I would like to say: get that subscription now. Help the developers. You will get this feature.

At the moment Photoprism looks like a (probably unhealthy) balancing act for @lastzero and @graciousgrey - compromises have to be made. I admire your stamina!

Get on their side and make your own compromise: Weigh up your monetary contribution against ALL the features you are and will be getting, not just that one you're desperately waiting for.
Pay them to make this happen, every subscription counts.

[fergbrain]

100%. I signed up a month ago because of this exact reason (and need)!

[0xE1]

Any chance users could have uid/gid associated so files that are added by them will have files on filesystem appropriately owned?
This would make it easier to have both webui and backend (incl Samba) in-line.

[lastzero]

No, because PhotoPrism is generally not running as root and so does not control user / group IDs. Also, the same files may belong to multiple users.

[0xE1]

That does make sense for a web accessible application, security takes priority over convenience in this case.

Though still need to make sure files and folders are properly accessible, making sure the uid/gid used are aligned with what's needed by host (thinking of how unraid is encouraging this approach).

[lastzero]

As mentioned at https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/libraries/, we recommend setting up multiple instances in this case so that every user can manage his/her own files independently and use the instance under different user/group ID. This of course requires more memory, but also provides a clear separation without permission issues. In a future release we will try to provide additional tools and functionality to make this easier for less experienced users, e.g. by automatically launching and connecting individual instances in the background using a built-in proxy.

[sorryusernameisalreadytaken]

If I dont see it wrong, it seems that the Essential package has now role support?

[lastzero]

Indeed. Note you will need to use our official Docker image for this, just like when you want to use the additional plus features.

[maxime1992]

Sounds fantastic. From which release is it available and how to use it please?
I'm on PhotoPrism® Essentials Build 230719-73fa7bbe8 I pulled yesterday for the last time.
But I couldn't find anything for this feature 🤔 maybe there's a more recent release as well?

[sorryusernameisalreadytaken]

Sounds fantastic. From which release is it available and how to use it please? I'm on PhotoPrism® Essentials Build 230719-73fa7bbe8 I pulled yesterday for the last time. But I couldn't find anything for this feature 🤔 maybe there's a more recent release as well?

I think you have the right version but you had no visual user interface in the "admin web ui" see here:
https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/
Have a look at the cli:
https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/cli/

[a-stewart]

The pro version of Photoprism has a contributor roles which seems to do exactly what is being asked for here: https://www.photoprism.app/pro/kb/roles

Contributor
Contributors have read-only access (view and download) to the resources that are in their configured base path, and to the albums that an admin or regular user has shared with them via a link (see below). The Contributor role does not have access to the entire library, but does have the right to upload files to the directory specified as the upload path. Contributors can also change their personal user preferences such as theme, language, and password.

Given that it now exists for Pro, it is just a matter of time before it trickles down to the more affordable personal versions, or is there a techincal limitation / financial decision that means we won't see this role?

[lastzero]

The same question has already been answered here:

• How to Enable Contributor Role? #3946

[a-stewart]

Thanks,

So to clarify; the contributor role is built on top of other logic / configurability which is only enabled for the pro version.

To support contributors in the personal versions would also require bringing that configurability to the personal versions, which is not something that you are prepared to do (either in terms of the effort being infeasible, or in terms of the configuration being what pro users are paying for).

I'll keep subscribed to #98 and hopefully we'll get support for something similar to contributors in the personal version in 2024 :)

Thanks for all the work you have done on this app!

[lastzero]

What we want to ship for personal use is basically this:

• Sharing: Configure sharing options like upload / edit/view metadata / views  #557

So a sharing dialog that is safe to use and that allows you to grant upload permissions when sharing albums with specific friends without having to configure each user account individually and without requiring knowledge of the underlying file system. Similar to Google Photos and other hosted services.

[giterest]

Hi there,

• I've got a working and running PhotoPrism (Essentials, Build 231218-c6cad4614) installation that has RO-access to all images that belong to a certain Nextcloud user ("Family")
• I've configured this in the docker-compose.yml as Nextclouds' data directory is mounted to the machine PhotoPrism is running on
• Currently, PHOTOPRISM_PUBLIC is set to TRUE (in docker-compose.yml)

Now I've created two users ("A" and "B") in PhotoPrism that shall "mirror" their respective Nextcloud accounts. Both users "A" and "B" should have access to all "Family" pictures plus their own images in Nextcloud. Is there a way to solve this?

As an example; if "A" searches for all pictures with person "Max", "A" should be able to view all images from "Family" and his/her own images from Nextcloud.

[graciousgrey]

Hey 👋

This is planned but not yet implemented: https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/libraries/

[giterest]

Hey Theresa,
thanks for your reply. So if I got that right it's not possible to set (yet!);

• all photoprism users can view base-path [...]/Family/files/Fotos
• photoprism user "A" has his/her base-path [...]/A/files/Fotos and only "A" can see them (except those which are shared from "A"->"B")
• photoprism user "B" has his/her base-path [...]/B/files/Fotos and only "B" can see them (except those which are shared from "B"->"A")

Would be great to use the trained facial recognition on all indexed media files and not to set up multiple instances.

Thanks for all the efforts you put in photoprism, stay healthy and all the best for 2024 :)!

[doctorpangloss]

In which version do you support defining policies for albums? The idea would be that users can modify any albums that "belong" to them (aka their album ID is prefixed by the user's ID) and public albums?

In which version do you support OIDC?

[lastzero]

While OpenID Connect (OIDC) is not ready for you yet, we welcome help with testing OAuth2 and 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) in preparation for our upcoming stable release:

• Account: Add Support for 2-Factor Authentication #808
• API: Add support for OAuth2 Client Credentials and Access Tokens #3943

[jidckii]

Formulation Additional User Roles and User Management UI in the Essentials and Plus tariffs - they are misleading!
I bought Essentials thinking that I could use it at home with my wife, but it turns out that the library is shared by everyone. Why do I need additional roles at all if, in fact, they all have the same access to all data?
Judging by the discussions in the thread, this behavior will change, am I right? or did I waste $24?)))

[lastzero]

Note that this is clearly described in our documentation and that you can run multiple instances for this until we have a more convenient solution ready for you (also without signing up for a membership):

• https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/libraries/

You are welcome to send us an email so that we can give you a refund:

• https://www.photoprism.app/contact