Solved Changing username
-
Hi guys. I was curious if there was a straight forward way to change my username on my cloudron instance. My reasoning here is my last name is changing (marriage yay) and my username (I didn't think this through) includes my current last name. Any ideas?
I imagine this would break LDAP in a number of apps so I'd have to move things over app-by-app.
-
@atrilahiji First - congrats!
Second - I am unaware of any way to do this. In fact I know we can't change mailbox names, so I guess we can't change our usernames yet either. 
haha. Hopefully one day both will be possible. 
-
So I got a new domain (atridad.dev) and moved all my apps over (CI was a pain in the ass) to using my new admin account on my cloudron, but now thats done. All I have left is to move my emails to my new email...
-
@atrilahiji sounds like this will be a good writeup!
-
@robi So I gave up and forwarded my emails over and used my old email as an alias for my new one to catch anything that still uses that one
-
@atrilahiji Simple and effective
-
@atrilahiji yes, we try to package the apps to use the username as identifier. This allows easier migration from one Cloudron to another, or to and from Cloudron, compared to some unique random ID.
However as you found out, this makes username changes hard. Depending on which and how many apps you use, you maybe can tinker with the database.
-
@nebulon I would have prefered precisely a unique SHA256 (collision-free) random UID, to be able to change our username easily. From my point of view, the software architecture should serve the user, and not the other way around...
I had the same problem and it was painful to change my username (still on the process).
My 2 cents. -
@samir we also went that route initially only to find out that it is more common to migrate between systems, where the UUID in the app database suddenly makes no sense and requires manual migration, compared to username changes. So we had to make some decision which way to go and leaned to the one which is more used in practical terms.
-
@nebulon Yeah fair enough. I figured it was a decision based on app compatability. Thankfully I only had 40 apps to go through
