Hi Damith,

Can you please clarify what are "internal references" and "external
references"? An example would be helpful.

Thanks,
Dulanja

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Damith Senanayake <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Currently the User Management aspects of the WSO2 Carbon platform doesn't
> provide the ability to rename the existing users. Currently all internal
> and external references to a user entry in a User Store is done by
> accessing the user entry by its "UserName" attribute. Therefore, the issue
> arises, when the UserName attribute is changed, although it may not affect
> internal references, the external references will not be able to map to the
> same user.
>
> I am currently implementing a feature to be able to change the username of
> a user. With this, the references to a user shall be done externally using
> a unique user identifier ("uid") and for internal references, the same
> username attribute can be used without an issue.
>
> I would be grateful for any comments and guidelines regarding the matter,
> as I wish to implement this as my training project.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> *-Damith Senanayake-*
> +94712205272
>



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Thanks & Regards,
Dulanja Liyanage
WSO2 Inc.
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