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David Handermann commented on NIFI-15499:
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Thanks for proposing this improvement [~cr4g5].
Part of the challenge of supporting a display name would be sourcing that
information from a given provider. NiFi does not store user information, it
retrieves it from other sources. As you mentioned LDAP, that is a more natural
source for a display name, and that could be configured from a configuration
property indicating the LDAP attribute providing the name. Other sources
outside of LDAP, or integrations with Single Sign-On such as OIDC or SAML may
not have that information, although some do.
For completeness, can you list the application sections where you think the
display name might be used?
> Add ability to have a Display Name for users in NiFi
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> Key: NIFI-15499
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-15499
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core UI
> Affects Versions: 2.7.2
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Craig Patrick
> Priority: Major
>
> At the moment, throughout NiFi the user information is displayed as what
> could be considered their "username" - that is, the information they use to
> log in. In some instances this might be convoluted, and in others is
> difficult to comprehend. As an example, for our integrations all of our users
> are LDPA and so we have things like:
> CN=my_user,OU=... etc etc.
> It would be nice if we could extend the user interface so we could add a
> "Display Name" which would be used throughout the UI so instead of the above,
> we could even name people as "Steve in Accounts" and clearly see who is
> making changes to processes, or who is updating flows - especially if
> usernames are even more obfuscated and convoluted.
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