Allow admins to remove persistent locks

[PVince81]

Currently persistent locks can only be removed by the lock owners.

It would be nice to also allow admins to remove such locks (aka "breaking the lock").
Prerequisite would be that admins also have access to the file through sharing.

Should subadmins also be able to unlock ?

@DeepDiver1975 @pmaier1

[ownclouders]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are #3260 (- Removed -), #240 (--- Removed ---), #5195 (Please allow Admins to masquerade as other users), #31651 (Adding persistent lock types to ILockingProvider), and #25307 (Allow admins to revoke authentication tokens).

[pmaier1]

I'm not sure whether this is needed. I would find it way more important to enable the file owners to unlock them as
a) it's their file and
b) they decide intentionally to unlock it.

[PVince81]

this only works for regular storages

for system-wide external storages there is no concept of file owner, so this would need to default to either everyone or just the admin.

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[phil-davis]

This is "effectively" coming in 10.9.
https://github.com/owncloud/enterprise/issues/4328

#38222

owncloud/docs#3962

Any user(s) can be put into the "lock breakers" group and can unlock files of other users that they can "see" (have received a share for)

@pmaier1 is that enough? or should admins get a right to unlock any file, if they need to?

[pmaier1]

@pmaier1 is that enough? or should admins get a right to unlock any file, if they need to?

Yes, nothing else planned. Coming with 10.9. Closing therefore.