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Alex_Sanchez
Contributor II
Contributor II

Problem with LDAP

Hi everyone,


The reason for this post is that my organization has made a change in the AD, specifically in the distinguished name field, which makes users look like this

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This new format causes problems when opening streams among other things

I have changed my filter in ldap, adding the value displayName, since in AD it is the same as the old format

(memberOf=CN=GROUPNAME,OU=X,OUX=XX,OU=XX XX,DC=XX,DC=XX,DC=com,displayName=Name)

I thought this would cause users to be renamed to the old format, but I have observed two things:

Users go to inactive state

Once users are deleted and re-enter the hub, they are renamed with a value similar to sAMAccountName, and they lose the permissions in the streams, and applications.

Thanks for all

7 Replies
Lauri
Specialist
Specialist

Take a look at this thread:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Knowledge/Qlik-Sense-moved-to-a-new-domain-or-server-name-changed-Conv...

I was able to update my users by editing Postgres directly. You might do that to update their usernames to match new format. It's scary, but if it works with a test account, it sure beats giving everyone new accounts.

Alex_Sanchez
Contributor II
Contributor II
Author

Hi Lauri,

Thanks for your reply. The url return "Page not found"..

Alex_Sanchez
Contributor II
Contributor II
Author

I can see the article, but my problem it's not exactly these. We don't change the UDC, we use the same UDC but we change one field in AD.

As I indicated in the first post, we have these format in the user name SURNAME, NAME (COUNTRY - CITY), but now the format is these SURNAME, NAME [logonname], but in the security rules we see the user with the old format

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This makes this user unable to access the streams, because Qlik detect two diferent username for the same user.

Lauri
Specialist
Specialist

I was thinking that you could update your users' accounts in Qlik (directly in Postgres) -- change their usernames to match the new format. It's a risky thing to do. I would test thoroughly.

Alex_Sanchez
Contributor II
Contributor II
Author

Thanks for your reply Lauri, can you provide more information about these?

I see the users in various tables in the BD, and i dont kown i rename the users

Lauri
Specialist
Specialist

I believe the table you need to work with is public."Users" but I am not certain. I would recommend you reply with a question in the thread I mentioned (https://community.qlik.com/t5/Knowledge/Qlik-Sense-moved-to-a-new-domain-or-server-name-changed-Conv...). 

Alex_Sanchez
Contributor II
Contributor II
Author

I think but i don't know, i can replace the Name field with other field like userid or mail in all my security rule.

Maybe these is more easy-

Anyone can help me in these question?