Wiki source code of Known Issues of User Management for GitLab
Version 8.2 by Boris Folgmann on 2025/12/01 14:51
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1.1 | 1 | The following table lists known issues for using GitLab within DevOps-as-a-Service, especially in relation to the central user and project management in the self-service portal. |
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| 3 | The entries do not describe real errors, but rather provide assistance on how to avoid inconsistencies between GitLab and the central user management via the self-service portal. | ||
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5.1 | 8 | |(% style="border-color:#888888; width:133px" %)User edit while deassigned from GitLab|(% style="border-color:#888888; width:271px" %)When a user is deassigned from GitLab and the user name changed afterwards in the self-service portal, then this change is not performed in GitLab.|(% style="border-color:#888888; width:357px" %)((( |
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1.1 | 9 | 1. Create a user A, and add tool GitLab to the user |
| 10 | 1. The user account A is created in GitLab | ||
| 11 | 1. Remove GitLab tool assignment from the user A in the self-service portal | ||
| 12 | 1. Rename the user in the self-service portal to B | ||
| 13 | 1. Assign GitLab to the user | ||
| 14 | 1. The result: user account in GitLab is still A | ||
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| 16 | Until a new user name update in the self-service portal the name in GitLab remains the same. Role changes do not affect the user name either. | ||
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8.2 | 17 | )))|(% style="border-color:#888888; width:296px" %)Avoid the change of a user name for a user which was assigned to GitLab and is now deassigned.|(% style="border-color:#888888; width:209px" %)After reassigning the user to GitLab, change the user name again in the self-service portal, then this changed user name will be propagated to GitLab. |
| 18 | |(% style="border-color:#888888; width:133px" %)Technical Users |(% style="border-color:#888888; width:271px" %)The creation of technical users for Gitlab in the DevOps Portal is currently not supported.|(% style="border-color:#888888; width:357px" %) |(% style="border-color:#888888; width:296px" %)Don't use the technical user feature in the DevOps Portal for GitLab.|(% style="border-color:#888888; width:209px" %)Use the features within GitLab to set up tokens for technical users. | ||
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