nextcloud / nextcloud/user_oidc
[Bug]: App Password Username too long with OAuth Logins
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- PHP
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Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
I have users login with OAuth, which maps username to the OAuth UUID. This makes Usernames 64 characters long. However, some apps like Mac Calendar (CalDAV) cannot redirect to the OAuth login. An App Password was created to login, however, CalDAV app does not allow for 64char username. Would it be possible to make the app password username customizable, or to default to a shorter (i.e. 20 char) username?
Steps to reproduce
- Create user with 64 character username
- Create App password
- try using app pasword & username in 3rd party software.
Expected behavior
login with app password
Installation method
Community Docker image
Nextcloud Server version
28
Operating system
RHEL/CentOS
PHP engine version
PHP 8.3
Web server
Apache (supported)
Database engine version
MariaDB
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
Fresh Nextcloud Server install
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
Encryption is Disabled
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
{
"system": {
"memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
"memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
"memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
"filelocking.enabled": "true",
"redis": {
"host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"port": 6379
},
"enabledPreviewProviders": [
"OC\\Preview\\Imaginary"
],
"preview_imaginary_url": "nextcloud_imaginary:9000",
"datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"trusted_domains": [
"***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
],
"trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbtype": "mysql",
"version": "28.0.1.1",
"overwrite.protocol": "https",
"overwritehost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"overwrite.cli.url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbport": "",
"dbtableprefix": "oc_",
"mysql.utf8mb4": true,
"dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"installed": true,
"mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
"mail_smtpsecure": "ssl",
"mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
"mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
"mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpport": "465",
"mail_smtpauth": 1,
"mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"default_phone_region": "US",
"maintenance": false,
"updater.release.channel": "stable",
"theme": "",
"loglevel": 2,
"allow_local_remote_servers": true,
"upgrade.disable-web": true
}
}
List of activated Apps
Enabled:
- calendar: 4.6.2
- cloud_federation_api: 1.11.0
- contactsinteraction: 1.9.0
- dav: 1.29.1
- federatedfilesharing: 1.18.0
- files: 2.0.0
- files_external: 1.20.0
- files_pdfviewer: 2.9.0
- files_reminders: 1.1.0
- files_sharing: 1.20.0
- logreader: 2.13.0
- lookup_server_connector: 1.16.0
- notifications: 2.16.0
- oauth2: 1.16.3
- provisioning_api: 1.18.0
- serverinfo: 1.18.0
- settings: 1.10.1
- sharebymail: 1.18.0
- snappymail: 2.32.0
- spreed: 18.0.1
- text: 3.9.1
- theming: 2.3.0
- twofactor_backupcodes: 1.17.0
- twofactor_totp: 10.0.0-beta.2
- user_oidc: 1.3.5
- viewer: 2.2.0
- workflowengine: 2.10.0
Disabled:
- activity: 2.20.0 (installed 2.17.0)
- admin_audit: 1.18.0
- bruteforcesettings: 2.8.0
- circles: 28.0.0-dev (installed 25.0.0)
- comments: 1.18.0 (installed 1.15.0)
- contacts: 5.5.1 (installed 5.5.1)
- dashboard: 7.8.0 (installed 7.5.0)
- encryption: 2.16.0
- federation: 1.18.0 (installed 1.15.0)
- files_rightclick: 1.6.0 (installed 1.4.0)
- files_trashbin: 1.18.0 (installed 1.15.0)
- files_versions: 1.21.0 (installed 1.18.0)
- firstrunwizard: 2.17.0 (installed 2.14.0)
- nextcloud_announcements: 1.17.0 (installed 1.14.0)
- password_policy: 1.18.0 (installed 1.15.0)
- photos: 2.4.0 (installed 2.0.1)
- privacy: 1.12.0 (installed 1.9.0)
- recommendations: 2.0.0 (installed 1.4.0)
- related_resources: 1.3.0 (installed 1.0.4)
- support: 1.11.0 (installed 1.8.0)
- survey_client: 1.16.0 (installed 1.13.0)
- suspicious_login: 6.0.0
- systemtags: 1.18.0 (installed 1.15.0)
- updatenotification: 1.18.0 (installed 1.17.0)
- user_ldap: 1.19.0
- user_status: 1.8.1 (installed 1.5.0)
- weather_status: 1.8.0 (installed 1.5.0)
Nextcloud Signing status
No errors have been found.
Nextcloud Logs
No response
Additional info
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Trace the user_oidc username mapping and the Nextcloud app-password authentication path, focusing on how CalDAV handles the 64-character OAuth-derived username. Reproduce the listed steps with a 64-character username and verify that the resulting app password can authenticate through a third-party CalDAV client without exceeding its username limit.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100