Novell Vibe users are identified by name (first, middle, last) and by user ID. User names are used to identify personal workspaces. User IDs are used for logging in. You can change users’ names, but not their user IDs. How you change users’ name depends on how you created the user.
If you are synchronizing user information from an LDAP directory, as described in Adding Vibe Users from Your LDAP Directory
in Basic Installation
in the Novell Vibe 3.3 Installation Guide, you change a user’s first, middle, or last name by updating it in the LDAP directory. The updated information then synchronizes to the Vibe 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 Vibe site, the change is not synchronized back to the LDAP directory, so the two sources of user information can be out of sync.
If you manually create Vibe users on the Vibe site, rather than synchronizing user information from an LDAP directory, you can change users’ names (first, middle, last) on the Vibe site.
When a user logs in to the Vibe site for the first time, the user’s personal workspace is created. Before a user logs in, he or she does not have a personal workspace. Vibe enables site administrators to manually rename both types of users.
NOTE:Vibe does not allow you to change a user ID after the user account has been created.
To rename a user who has previously logged in to the Vibe site and therefore has a personal workspace:
Navigate to the user’s personal workspace.
Click
on the Profile page.The User page is displayed.
Modify the
, , and fields as desired.Click
.To rename a user who has not previously logged in to the Vibe site and therefore does not have a personal workspace:
Search for a user you want to rename, as described in Searching for Specific People, Places, or Tagged Items
in the Novell Vibe 3.3 User Guide.
The user’s profile page is displayed.
Click
.The User page is displayed.
Modify the
, , and fields as desired.Click
.