diff --git a/.drone.star b/.drone.star
index 9e0698e5d5..37922ec633 100644
--- a/.drone.star
+++ b/.drone.star
@@ -1576,6 +1576,7 @@ def ocisServer(storage, accounts_hash_difficulty = 4, volumes = [], depends_on =
         user = "0:0"
         environment = {
             "OCIS_URL": OCIS_URL,
+            "FRONTEND_ENABLE_RESHARING": "true",
             "GATEWAY_GRPC_ADDR": "0.0.0.0:9142",  # cs3api-validator needs the cs3api gatway exposed
             "STORAGE_USERS_DRIVER": "%s" % (storage),
             "STORAGE_USERS_DRIVER_LOCAL_ROOT": "/srv/app/tmp/ocis/local/root",
@@ -1643,6 +1644,7 @@ def ocisServer(storage, accounts_hash_difficulty = 4, volumes = [], depends_on =
             "OCIS_RUN_EXTENSIONS": "app-registry,app-provider,auth-basic,auth-bearer,auth-machine,frontend,gateway,graph,graph-explorer,groups,nats,notifications,ocdav,ocs,proxy,search,settings,sharing,storage-system,storage-publiclink,storage-shares,storage-users,store,thumbnails,users,web,webdav",
             "OCIS_LOG_LEVEL": "info",
             "OCIS_URL": OCIS_URL,
+            "FRONTEND_ENABLE_RESHARING": "true",
             "OCIS_BASE_DATA_PATH": "/mnt/data/ocis",
             "OCIS_CONFIG_DIR": "/etc/ocis",
             "PROXY_ENABLE_BASIC_AUTH": "true",
@@ -2259,6 +2261,7 @@ def parallelAcceptance(env):
         "OCIS_SKELETON_STRATEGY": "copy",
         "SEND_SCENARIO_LINE_REFERENCES": "true",
         "UPLOAD_DELETE_WAIT_TIME": "1",
+        "FRONTEND_ENABLE_RESHARING": "true",
     }
     environment.update(env)
 
diff --git a/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/config.go b/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/config.go
index 4f2d6acfe1..418d8711c3 100644
--- a/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	UploadMaxChunkSize       int    `yaml:"upload_max_chunk_size" env:"FRONTEND_UPLOAD_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE" desc:"Sets the max chunk sizes for uploads via the frontend." `
 	UploadHTTPMethodOverride string `yaml:"upload_http_method_override" env:"FRONTEND_UPLOAD_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE" desc:"Advise TUS to replace PATCH requests by POST requests."`
 	DefaultUploadProtocol    string `yaml:"default_upload_protocol" env:"FRONTEND_DEFAULT_UPLOAD_PROTOCOL" desc:"The default upload protocol to use in the frontend (e.g. tus)."`
+	EnableResharing          bool   `yaml:"enable_resharing" env:"FRONTEND_ENABLE_RESHARING" desc:"Disables the support for resharing in the frontend."`
 
 	PublicURL string `yaml:"public_url" env:"OCIS_URL;FRONTEND_PUBLIC_URL" desc:"The public facing url of the ocis frontend."`
 
diff --git a/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/defaults/defaultconfig.go b/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/defaults/defaultconfig.go
index 051fbad36a..3dea23c38a 100644
--- a/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/defaults/defaultconfig.go
+++ b/extensions/frontend/pkg/config/defaults/defaultconfig.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ func DefaultConfig() *config.Config {
 		UploadMaxChunkSize:       1e+8,
 		UploadHTTPMethodOverride: "",
 		DefaultUploadProtocol:    "tus",
+		EnableResharing:          false,
 		Checksums: config.Checksums{
 			SupportedTypes:      []string{"sha1", "md5", "adler32"},
 			PreferredUploadType: "",
diff --git a/extensions/frontend/pkg/revaconfig/config.go b/extensions/frontend/pkg/revaconfig/config.go
index f9862ba130..aa0ad16430 100644
--- a/extensions/frontend/pkg/revaconfig/config.go
+++ b/extensions/frontend/pkg/revaconfig/config.go
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ func FrontendConfigFromStruct(cfg *config.Config) map[string]interface{} {
 							},
 							"files_sharing": map[string]interface{}{
 								"api_enabled":                       true,
-								"resharing":                         true,
+								"resharing":                         cfg.EnableResharing,
 								"group_sharing":                     true,
 								"auto_accept_share":                 true,
 								"share_with_group_members_only":     true,