diff --git a/glauth/pkg/command/root.go b/glauth/pkg/command/root.go
index 55b5070d67..6c8baa610c 100644
--- a/glauth/pkg/command/root.go
+++ b/glauth/pkg/command/root.go
@@ -19,21 +19,16 @@ func Execute(cfg *config.Config) error {
 		Version:  version.String,
 		Usage:    "Serve GLAuth API for oCIS",
 		Compiled: version.Compiled(),
-
 		Authors: []*cli.Author{
 			{
 				Name:  "ownCloud GmbH",
 				Email: "support@owncloud.com",
 			},
 		},
-
-		//Flags: flagset.RootWithConfig(cfg),
-
 		Before: func(c *cli.Context) error {
 			cfg.Version = version.String
 			return nil
 		},
-
 		Commands: []*cli.Command{
 			Server(cfg),
 			Health(cfg),
@@ -73,12 +68,8 @@ func ParseConfig(c *cli.Context, cfg *config.Config) error {
 
 	// load all env variables relevant to the config in the current context.
 	conf.LoadOSEnv(config.GetEnv(), false)
-
-	if err = cfg.UnmapEnv(conf); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	return nil
+	bindings := config.StructMappings(cfg)
+	return ociscfg.BindEnv(conf, bindings)
 }
 
 // SutureService allows for the glauth command to be embedded and supervised by a suture supervisor tree.
@@ -88,11 +79,7 @@ type SutureService struct {
 
 // NewSutureService creates a new glauth.SutureService
 func NewSutureService(cfg *ociscfg.Config) suture.Service {
-	inheritLogging(cfg)
-	if cfg.Mode == 0 {
-		cfg.GLAuth.Supervised = true
-	}
-	cfg.GLAuth.Log.File = cfg.Log.File
+	cfg.GLAuth.Log = cfg.Log
 	return SutureService{
 		cfg: cfg.GLAuth,
 	}
@@ -106,13 +93,3 @@ func (s SutureService) Serve(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 	return nil
 }
-
-// inheritLogging is a poor man's global logging state tip-toeing around circular dependencies. It sets the logging
-// of the service to whatever is in the higher config (in this case coming from ocis.yaml) and sets them as defaults,
-// being overwritten when the extension parses its config file / env variables.
-func inheritLogging(cfg *ociscfg.Config) {
-	cfg.GLAuth.Log.File = cfg.Log.File
-	cfg.GLAuth.Log.Color = cfg.Log.Color
-	cfg.GLAuth.Log.Pretty = cfg.Log.Pretty
-	cfg.GLAuth.Log.Level = cfg.Log.Level
-}
diff --git a/glauth/pkg/config/config.go b/glauth/pkg/config/config.go
index 6380aa8c64..89339a5fe4 100644
--- a/glauth/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/glauth/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -6,18 +6,12 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"reflect"
 
+	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/ocis-pkg/shared"
+
 	gofig "github.com/gookit/config/v2"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/ocis-pkg/config/defaults"
 )
 
-// Log defines the available logging configuration.
-type Log struct {
-	Level  string `mapstructure:"level"`
-	Pretty bool   `mapstructure:"pretty"`
-	Color  bool   `mapstructure:"color"`
-	File   string `mapstructure:"file"`
-}
-
 // Debug defines the available debug configuration.
 type Debug struct {
 	Addr   string `mapstructure:"addr"`
@@ -70,17 +64,17 @@ type Backend struct {
 
 // Config combines all available configuration parts.
 type Config struct {
-	File           string  `mapstructure:"file"`
-	Log            Log     `mapstructure:"log"`
-	Debug          Debug   `mapstructure:"debug"`
-	HTTP           HTTP    `mapstructure:"http"`
-	Tracing        Tracing `mapstructure:"tracing"`
-	Ldap           Ldap    `mapstructure:"ldap"`
-	Ldaps          Ldaps   `mapstructure:"ldaps"`
-	Backend        Backend `mapstructure:"backend"`
-	Fallback       Backend `mapstructure:"fallback"`
-	Version        string  `mapstructure:"version"`
-	RoleBundleUUID string  `mapstructure:"role_bundle_uuid"`
+	File           string     `mapstructure:"file"`
+	Log            shared.Log `mapstructure:"log"`
+	Debug          Debug      `mapstructure:"debug"`
+	HTTP           HTTP       `mapstructure:"http"`
+	Tracing        Tracing    `mapstructure:"tracing"`
+	Ldap           Ldap       `mapstructure:"ldap"`
+	Ldaps          Ldaps      `mapstructure:"ldaps"`
+	Backend        Backend    `mapstructure:"backend"`
+	Fallback       Backend    `mapstructure:"fallback"`
+	Version        string     `mapstructure:"version"`
+	RoleBundleUUID string     `mapstructure:"role_bundle_uuid"`
 
 	Context    context.Context
 	Supervised bool
@@ -93,7 +87,7 @@ func New() *Config {
 
 func DefaultConfig() *Config {
 	return &Config{
-		Log: Log{},
+		Log: shared.Log{},
 		Debug: Debug{
 			Addr: "127.0.0.1:9129",
 		},
diff --git a/glauth/pkg/config/env.go b/glauth/pkg/config/mappings.go
similarity index 88%
rename from glauth/pkg/config/env.go
rename to glauth/pkg/config/mappings.go
index ef48fdc5f4..7d2a1393d2 100644
--- a/glauth/pkg/config/env.go
+++ b/glauth/pkg/config/mappings.go
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
 package config
 
+import "github.com/owncloud/ocis/ocis-pkg/shared"
+
 type mapping struct {
 	EnvVars     []string    // name of the EnvVars var.
 	Destination interface{} // memory address of the original config value to modify.
 }
 
+// StructMappings binds a set of environment variables to a destination on cfg. Iterating over this set and editing the
+// Destination value of a binding will alter the original value, as it is a pointer to its memory address. This lets
+// us propagate changes easier.
+func StructMappings(cfg *Config) []shared.EnvBinding {
+	return structMappings(cfg)
+}
+
 // structMappings binds a set of environment variables to a destination on cfg.
-func structMappings(cfg *Config) []mapping {
-	return []mapping{
+func structMappings(cfg *Config) []shared.EnvBinding {
+	return []shared.EnvBinding{
 		{
 			EnvVars:     []string{"GLAUTH_LOG_LEVEL", "OCIS_LOG_LEVEL"},
 			Destination: &cfg.Log.Level,
diff --git a/proxy/pkg/command/root.go b/proxy/pkg/command/root.go
index cc1f91fe1e..7544f9a91c 100644
--- a/proxy/pkg/command/root.go
+++ b/proxy/pkg/command/root.go
@@ -19,19 +19,16 @@ func Execute(cfg *config.Config) error {
 		Version:  version.String,
 		Usage:    "proxy for oCIS",
 		Compiled: version.Compiled(),
-
 		Authors: []*cli.Author{
 			{
 				Name:  "ownCloud GmbH",
 				Email: "support@owncloud.com",
 			},
 		},
-
 		Before: func(c *cli.Context) error {
 			cfg.Service.Version = version.String
 			return nil
 		},
-
 		Commands: []*cli.Command{
 			Server(cfg),
 			Health(cfg),