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[Feature Request] Mark mount as read only in the mount settings #29873

@mmattel

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@mmattel

If you mount a storage, it could be that the user has no write rights.
It is not when we do sharing where we can already set a read only flag which we further do/could use (see later).

It targets those mounts where the accessing user with his credentials has no rights to write to. This is handled by the accessed storage and not by owncloud.
I am only talking on full mounts and not about possible different subfolder permissions !

Because we do not see this write disability, a user might try to write into and gets a error message that does not give him the proper cause. If I remember correctly, if we have a shared read only mount, the error message is correct and helpful.

Thinking further, this is also true for the user at the client who has no clue why he can´t write to a mount - and if he does he can do into the client´s filesystem but the data never gets synced.

I do not know if a read only marker for a read only mount gets currently already propagated to the client. If not this should be done and if yes this FR is only an extension if set on the mount. But anyways this is a part of core to do so and a part of the client to take an action which is to be determined.

Proposal:
Adding the ability to mark a storage as read only.

@PVince81 @SamuAlfageme

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