TL;DR:
fix duplicate filename via:
```
docker exec <container> migrate-nfc-filenames --dry-run # preview
docker exec <container> migrate-nfc-filenames # execute
```
== issue ==
Last week I uploaded Capture d'écran 2026-06-03 à 20.04.24.png from the web. It synced down to Nextcloud on my Mac. Two minutes later, the Web UI was showing the file twice.
Both rows had:
- the same name
- the same size
- the same content hash
So why two rows? Because to PostgreSQL, the names weren't the same.
Web upload (browser → Postgres):
"é" stored as 1 codepoint (U+00E9) bytes: c3 a9 ← NFC
NiextCloud client (macOS → Postgres):
"é" stored as 2 codepoints (e + U+0301) bytes: 65 cc 81 ← NFD
macOS's APFS keeps filenames in NFD (decomposed); browsers send NFC (composed). Visually é and é are identical. To WHERE name = $1 they're two different keys. Our UNIQUE index on (folder_id, name, user_id) never fired — and the row count quietly drifted every time a Mac user touched an accented
filename.
== The fix is two halves ==
1. No new duplicates — every name-receiving boundary (file upload, NC PUT, rename, MOVE, path lookup) now NFC-normalizes before touching the database. The storage invariant becomes "every stored name is NFC".
2. Clean up existing data — one-shot migrate-nfc-filenames binary walks storage.files, NFC-normalizes any non-NFC row, and resolves the collisions we've accumulated. Same-content duplicates go to trash (recoverable); different-content collisions get renamed with a .duplicate suffix.
== use of the clean up ==
example of use (do not forget to define env **DATABASE_URL**)
either
`cargo run --bin migrate-nfc-filenames -- --dry-run`
or
`cargo build --bin migrate-nfc-filenames`
`./target/debug/migrate-nfc-filenames --dry-run`
example:
```
% ./target/debug/migrate-nfc-filenames --dry-run
=== NFC filename migration (DRY RUN — no writes) ===
Loaded 543 non-trashed file rows
NORMALIZE 163451b5-5e6c-404b-9b1e-f4b01a2b7269 user=42433185-4717-416d-9a15-4580fff171ec 'Capture d’écran 2026-03-20 à 14.44.50.png' → 'Capture d’écran 2026-03-20 à 14.44.50.png'
NORMALIZE 827dddec-4dd5-48c2-a120-dec5289f7d29 user=969deca6-7935-4f12-a430-4d636b62fa3e 'Capture d’écran 2026-04-03 à 15.43.38.png' → 'Capture d’écran 2026-04-03 à 15.43.38.png'
NORMALIZE 09559934-a620-472d-9ba8-fc3cfeb6dc6f user=a0643a21-0092-4a84-9dde-7ac4e76bc1a5 'Capture d’écran 2026-06-03 à 20.05.38.png' → 'Capture d’écran 2026-06-03 à 20.05.38.png'
NORMALIZE 5ce6dbf9-0562-4758-8783-671aa9069590 user=a0643a21-0092-4a84-9dde-7ac4e76bc1a5 'Capture d’écran 2026-06-05 à 11.07.25.png' → 'Capture d’écran 2026-06-05 à 11.07.25.png'
DEDUP newer=26bcf82b-99cc-45c8-9d69-dd7e5c4484ff (trash, same blob) older=df3adc67-a778-424d-a817-b930c75f3b06 user=a0643a21-0092-4a84-9dde-7ac4e76bc1a5 hash=0d2cc7b0ffce2850
=== Summary ===
scanned : 543
already in NFC : 538
normalized in place (no collision) : 4
dedup-trashed (same content) : 1
renamed to .duplicate : 0
DRY RUN — no rows were written. Re-run without --dry-run to apply.
```
once valid remove --dry-run
on a file or folder change, the etag of each parent will be updated, this is O(n)
this is required to ensure NextCloud client will be aware of changes
In the future a Cursor will be better, this will be for OxiCloud-desktop
issue: on folder creation view was wiped and displaying only the new folder
fix: add a "new" swimlane if in group mode and scroll up to the new created folder
- add coalesced protection to avoid mail bombing if an invited goes many grant in a short period
- add resentd method in share menu item (work for both internal and external users)
- user can disable email notification via his properties
- add env variable from admin to disable notifications
- OIDC JIT define the locale only at user creation, user can so change his preference later
- invited users will inherit inviter's locale
- email will use prefered_locale
- login to a new browser will use prefered_locale
- remove the hardcoded list of locales in favor of a discovry on start time
- server will stop on badly formatted locale .json
- add server.* entries for serer side translation
server side translation will be used for templating and email
note: no json in some embded html (like in /magic), amount of work was similar
magic-link as now 2 modes:
- invitation: long TTL (24), no challenge
- passwordless login: short TTL (10min), cookie challenge to ensure that
user goes back to same browser (no man in the middle capturing email)
1. Identity model — email is the identity, three optional credential slots (username, password_hash, oidc_subject), the @-in-username ban that makes namespaces provably disjoint.
2. Login dispatcher — @-in-input decides the path. Single DB lookup.
3. Login paths — four ways in (username+password, email+password, email+magic-link, OIDC redirect) with their pre-conditions.
4. Magic-link eligibility ladder — the three-branch table with OIDC unconditional reject, password flag-gated, no-credential allowed.
5. Registration paths — four ways (/api/auth/register with full creds, email-only, grant-by-email invitation, OIDC JIT).
6. Anti-enumeration — per-endpoint table showing what each surface returns and why; explicit note that instance-wide policy stays visible.
7. Security trade-offs — mailbox-as-bypass (lenient vs strict), no native MFA, magic-link as bearer token, enumeration via timing.
8. Rate limits — the five caps from PR 12 + classic auth, with env knobs.
9. Audit events — table of 12 event names with reason keys; every entry verified grep-able in src/.
10. Migration path — what existing instances see when PR 16-20 land (forward-only, non-destructive).
11. Future direction — login_strategy — the seven-row matrix sketch as the explicit-policy north star.
12. Out of scope — TOTP/WebAuthn, external→internal promotion, session_kind, differentiated session TTL, OCM, email-verified gates (PR 23), device-bound tokens (PR 22), anti-enum timing parity, per-user opt-out, login_strategy implementation.
13. Related documents — cross-refs to magic-link-auth, ReBAC, share-integration, env-vars.
Important: anti-enumeration is active only if SMTP is defined, welcome email can be used
otherwise it is a classic registration with ok or conflic if account alrady exists
OXICLOUD_MAGIC_LINK_OPEN_TO_PASSWORD_USERS (default false)
For security I recommand to keep it false
OIDC cannot be bypassed because OIDC may have MFA in place
Backend
- RegisterDto — username and password both become Option<String> with #[serde(default)] so JSON can omit them entirely.
- AuthApplicationService::register — username uniqueness check skipped when None (multiple NULLs OK under the UNIQUE index); password hashing skipped when None; User::new called with the actual Options instead of forcing Some(...).
- auth_handler::register — branches on dto.password.is_none(). With password → existing 201 + UserDto. Without → triggers MagicLinkInviteService::send_login_link(&email) best-effort, then returns 200 + {"message": "Check your email…"}. The
OIDC-mode-disables-password-registration gate now only fires for the password path (email-only signup is still allowed even in OIDC-only mode, because it doesn't store a password).
- magic_link_handler::redirect_target — new 3-way decision tree:
- Resource target (folder invitation) → /#/files/folder/{id} (existing)
- NULL resource + is_external = false → /#/files (the welcome path for new internal users — they have a home folder)
- NULL resource + is_external = true → /#/sharedwithme (the existing external-user landing)
Tests
- New tests/api/registration.hurl with 9 requests covering: classic (with-password) register → 201 + UserDto, email-only register → 200 + uniform message + welcome magic-link captured, redemption → 302 to /#/files + cookies set, profile read → username
absent + is_external: false, resend magic-link works (eligible while passwordless), cleanup deletes both new users.
- Wired into tests/api/run.sh right after auth_login.hurl.
Plan additions
- auth-simplification.md gained PR 22 at the bottom of the PR sequence — device-bound magic-link redemption via challenge cookie + asymmetric TTLs (login: 10 min, invitation: 24 h). Full design recap, schema migration, config knobs
(OXICLOUD_MAGIC_LINK_LOGIN_TTL_MINUTES / _INVITE_TTL_HOURS), and Hurl coverage outline are in the plan. Slots in before PR 21's docs so the architecture page describes the final state from the start.
Checks — cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test --lib (297 passed), biome, stylelint, tsc, full Hurl suite (16 files) all green.
username: now optional, if defined 2..64 chars
password: now optional (no mode __NO_PASSWORD...__)
oidc: now optional
important: if need Nextcloud, username must be defined
Edouard Vanbelle