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Type: Suggestion
Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 5.3
Component/s: None
Labels:
- User_Admin
- affects-server
- enterprise
- manage-users
- mt
- pm_review
- top25
- users&groups

Support reference count:
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Description

NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

Confluence does not provide a function to change the username via the web or remote interface.

Since it is not guaranteed that users will be stored in the confluence database (eg. using external user management), the username instead of an id is used as the foreign key. Therefore if you need to update the username, you will have to update every occurrence of the username used as foreign key in all tables. This procedure should be automated to avoid corruption in the database due to mistakes made in the process.

Atlassian Status as of January 22, 2013

Hi All,
Thanks for your feedback on this issue thus far. We acknowledge that administrators need a way to change usernames within the system. Please note, that users can still change their Full Name as it appears in the Confluence user interface. For example, a user can change his Full Name from Bill Arconati to John Smith but currently can't change his username from barconati to jsmith.

At this stage we do not have a supported way to change the username in your system. However, we've documented a series of SQL scripts to allow an administrator to update a username directly inside the Confluence database. Please note that the process is not supported but a number of customers have been successful with them.

We have started exploring solutions to this complex issue and hope to provide a more eloquent way of updating usernames within the next year. We will update the status of this issue once we have made further progress.

Thank you for your patience.
Bill Arconati

Attachments

Issue Links

blocks

CONFSERVER-17212 OsUser to Atlassian User migration fails when the LDAP users have a different case to the users in the OSUSER table.

Closed

CONFSERVER-20157 Email address exposure even when the user specifies they want their email address hidden

Closed

causes

CONFSERVER-12437 Confluence page "changing usernames" not up to date with tables introduced in recent versions

Closed

CONFSERVER-18568 Upgrade change user name documentation

Closed

is duplicated by

CONFSERVER-5567 User management MUST improve!

Closed

CONFSERVER-7288 editUser and setUserInformation (XML-RPC) functions provide limited abilities

Closed

is incorporated by

CONFSERVER-9159 Enable changing groupnames

Future Consideration

is related to

JRASERVER-1549 Ability to rename a user

Closed

relates to

CONFCLOUD-4063 Change usernames

Closed

CONFSERVER-2191 Group management improvements

Closed

CONFSERVER-26594 Provide a way to bulk delete or edit Users and Groups

Closed

CONFSERVER-30228 Ability to automatically detect a changed username in Crowd

Closed

CONFSERVER-31313 Merge accounts and change usernames.

Closed

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Activity

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Assignee:: Paul Curren

Reporter:: jens

Votes:: 489 Vote for this issue

Watchers:: 267 Start watching this issue

Dates

Created:: 19/Sep/2005 1:41 AM

Updated:: 03/Jul/2023 4:21 AM

Resolved:: 30/Sep/2013 1:46 AM