user changes in external ldap

[dima]

Hi cloudronians,

we use our active directory (external ldap) for usermanagement. Now we have to change some accounts (SAMAccountName and email). As a result, new users will creted in cloudron.
How can I manage it to change smoothly the exiting users to their new names.

I guess the feature "user can change name and email" would help, but if I set this option, I can not found the matching settings in the user profile. It is still not editable.

have a greet day,

dirk

[girish]

@dima it's not possible to change the user's username (email can be changed). The issue is that even if we make Cloudron handle it, the upstream apps cannot. Practically none of the apps can handle username change. If you had data under the user 'foo' and change this user to 'bar' in LDAP, they won't migrate the data of 'foo' to 'bar'.

Only way is to delete the old user in Cloudron. Make LDAP syncer create the new user on Cloudron. For all practical purposes, this user is just a new user. Then, the Cloudron admin has to login to each app and reassign any data (if the app even allows this) to the new user. Quite cumbersome but there is no reliable way for this across apps

[dima]

Hi @girish,
thank you for the quick answer and explanation. We can deal with it. Have a nice weekend.