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David Handermann commented on NIFI-15499:
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Thanks for the additional description of possibilities [~cr4g5].
The users.xml is designed to map identifiers, not necessarily store additional
user information. That being said, it might be something to consider as an
optional field. In other cases, however, where the users.xml maps a group to a
permission, there wouldn't be the need or opportunity to supply the display
name for every user. For installations beyond just a few users, it seems like
it would become a challenge maintenance issue to store the display name. It
also goes against the general goal of keeping user attributes out of NiFi
itself. It does raise potential identification concerns about mislabeling
users, which is why sourcing that information from an external service is a
more reliable option.
> 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
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Craig Patrick
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: image-2026-01-26-08-49-49-575.png,
> image-2026-01-26-08-55-18-593.png, image-2026-01-26-08-56-52-159.png,
> image-2026-01-26-08-59-09-412.png, image-2026-01-26-09-00-10-655.png
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> 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 LDAP 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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