Hi, An alias (nickname in Google Apps terminology) is just an alternate email address for user to receive mails at another address. User can only login using their assigned username (in your case, "unique_identifier"). By the way, you cannot create a nickname with a full email address as the "@" is not a valid character for a nickname.
An alternate solution to allow your users to keep their existing usernames (i.e. "name") is to use Google Apps SSO: http://code.google.com/apis/apps/sso/saml_reference_implementation.html With Google Apps SSO, authentication will be delegated to your system and you can have full control on your users' usernames. Thanks, --Tony On Dec 1, 1:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are looking for a solution in order to migrate our existing customers' > account to new primary accounts without changing their usernames. > > Each existing customer has an account such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and an > username "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Now we need to create a new account like [EMAIL PROTECTED] which > will be the primary account. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be changed to an > alias. But we need that the customers will continue logging in with > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as their username > > Is this possible, since the [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be actually an alias? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
