Changing LDAP user Full Name

[pc-maniac]

Steps to reproduce

1. Configure LDAP autentification
2. Create a user on LDAP server
3. Login to NextCloud with login/password from LDAP
4. Change user FullName on the LDAP server
5. Logoff/Logon user on NextCloud, goto to personal settings - old FullName appears.

Expected behaviour

If FullName updated from LDAP and admin can see it, all other users need to see this new user FullName.

Actual behaviour

When I changed FullName of user on the LDAP server, this FullName appears on the users admin page, but in user's personal settings page still displays old FullName.

Server configuration

Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS x86-64
NextCloud v12.0.0 clean install

[MorrisJobke]

@blizzz Could this be a caching issue?

[blizzz]

Sounds like that, except for

this FullName appears on the users admin page, but in user's personal settings page still displays old FullName.

[pc-maniac]

If some additional details needed, I can provide it.

[blizzz]

I'd need to allocate some time to reproduce and check this. It's not very high on my priorities right now, tbh. If you're familiar with PHP… ?

[pc-maniac]

If you're familiar with PHP… ?

Basic level

[zinsserzh]

The same thing happened to me. I found a quick fix. In the admin's user list page, click on each of the users whose name has been changed in ldap, and then press enter. Then the name is also changed in nextcloud's system. However, this is just a dirty workaround.

nvm this doesn't fix the issue either.

[blizzz]

Mh, does anybody still experience this? I was never able to reproduce this. There was a similar case when the name was not being updated in the local addressbook, but that sounds a bit different to what was described here.

[johkoenig]

This issue is still present on Nextcloud 14.0.3 in combination with a Windows Server 2016 AD/LDAP.
The old information is shown in the "personal information" page of each user. Also, when opening the "contact search" by clicking on the button right next to the users avatar on the upper right corner, the old user names of the other LDAP users are also listed.

[blizzz]

Alright, those are fixed with #12054 (→ next maintenance releases)