18.5 Renaming a Filr User

Novell Filr users are identified by name (first, middle, last) and by user ID. User names are used to identify personal profiles. User IDs are used for logging in. You can change users’ names, but not their user IDs. The way you change a user’s name depends on how you created the user.

18.5.1 Renaming a Filr User from LDAP

If you are synchronizing user information from an LDAP directory, as described in Section 18.1, Synchronizing Users and Groups from an LDAP Directory, you change a user’s first, middle, or last name by updating it in the LDAP directory. The updated information then synchronizes to the Filr site according to the schedule you have established for LDAP synchronization. If you change a user’s first, middle, or last name by updating information on the Filr site, the change is not synchronized back to the LDAP directory, so the two sources of user information can be out of sync.

18.5.2 Renaming a Local Filr User

If you manually create Filr users on the Filr site, rather than synchronizing user information from an LDAP directory, you can change users’ names (first, middle, last) on the Filr site.

When a user logs in to the Filr site for the first time, the user’s personal profile is created. Before a user logs in, he or she does not have a personal profile. Filr enables site administrators to manually rename both types of users.

NOTE:Filr does not allow you to change a user ID after the user account has been created.

Renaming Users Who Have Logged In to Filr

To rename a user who has previously logged in to the Filr site and therefore has a personal profile:

  1. Navigate to the user’s personal profile.

  2. Click Edit on the Profile page.

    The User page is displayed.

  3. Modify the First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name fields as desired.

  4. Click OK.

Renaming Users Who Have Not Logged In to Filr

To rename a user who has not previously logged in to the Filr site and therefore does not have a personal profile:

  1. Click the User List icon in the masthead.

  2. Click the name of the user who you want to rename, then click Modify.

    The User page is displayed

  3. Modify the First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name fields as desired.

  4. Click OK.