Command-line Account Setup

If you want to automate an Account Setup Wizard to allow the user skip entering server URL and local sync folder path in UI, you can use command-line parameters. When you specify both, the desktop client’s Account Setup Wizard will jump straight to opening a browser for account authentication/connection without the need of entering any of the connection details. The local sync folder will also be selected to the one you specify instead of using default path (/home/Nextcloud)

The following parameters are supported:

--overridelocaldir

specify a local dir to be used in the account setup wizard (e.g.: /home/nextcloud-sync-folder)

--overrideserverurl

specify a server URL to use for the force override to be used in the account setup wizard (e.g.: https://cloud.example.com)

Examples:

• C:\Program Files\Nextcloud\nextcloud.exe" --overridelocaldir "D:/work/nextcloud-sync-folder" --overrideserverurl https://cloud.example.com

• For Linux and mac the same example as above will work but nextcloud.exe path and --overridelocaldir value should get changed to platform specific format (e.g. no .exe extension and /home/<user folder> format)