Will Sheldon wrote:
Hello all :)
We have an internal process that requires the renaming of users from
time to time (user gets married, changes name). This requires changing
the "login name” as it’s called in the GUI, (or uid in LDAP).
There doesn’t currently appear to be any method for doing so other than
to delete the user and create a new one, then update the uidNumber and
gidNumber to the old values using the ipa modify-user command.
Is there a better way? I’ve looked through all the docs and hunted
through the mailing list archives but can’t find anything...
W.
I'm not really a GUI guy but you can do it on the CLI using the --rename
option (I forget when we added this but it's in 3.0+):
Here I'll add a single woman named Sarah Robertson who finds Mr. Right
and takes his name, Jacobs.
$ ipa user-add --first=Sarah --last=Robertson sroberts
---------------------
Added user "sroberts"
---------------------
User login: sroberts
First name: Sarah
Last name: Robertson
Full name: Sarah Robertson
Display name: Sarah Robertson
Initials: SR
Home directory: /home/sroberts
GECOS field: Sarah Robertson
Login shell: /bin/sh
Kerberos principal: srobe...@example.com
Email address: srobe...@example.com
UID: 1717600001
GID: 1717600001
Password: False
Kerberos keys available: False
$ ipa user-mod --rename=sjacobs sroberts
------------------------
Modified user "sroberts"
------------------------
User login: sjacobs
First name: Sarah
Last name: Roberts
Home directory: /home/sroberts
Login shell: /bin/sh
Email address: srobe...@example.com
UID: 1717600001
GID: 1717600001
Account disabled: False
Password: False
Member of groups: ipausers
Kerberos keys available: False
Note that there are a bunch of values left to be updated including the
last name, GECOS, Full Name and potentially homedir and e-mail addr.
rob
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