Hi Teshome,

I assume you have good reasons for switching to LDAP (e.g. users only need to remember their main password), but just as a side note, we recently switched back from LDAP authentication to local user authentication to have a bit more control. One of the main reasons is being able to 'impersonate a user', a capability lost when using external authentication. We do not regret it ;)

Cheers,

Jelle

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Eric Rasche <esr@tamu.edu> wrote:

Hi Teshome,

I solved this by manually editing the user's emails in the database. I did this during the downtime, and just switched their old email address to their LDAP address, causing them to see their "old" histories, and no new accounts were generated.

If your users have already logged in (and thus have two accounts, one old, one new) it's slightly more complicated. 

Your best bet is to set up some downtime immediately, and do the above, causing the users to lose anything in their "new" accounts.

Failing that, a method of last resort:

You can update history IDs to the new users, i.e. find a mapping from old email + old user ID to new email + new user ID, and then run queries like UPDATE history set user_id=new_user_id where user_id=old_user_id but that only migrates histories, I don't know what else is keyed on user IDs (probably data libraries? Workflows? Hmm.)

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

Eric

2015-04-30 1:01 GMT-05:00 Teshome Dagne Mulugeta <teshome.mulugeta@nmbu.no>:

​Hi,

We are currently using galaxy specific login using email address. We changed the authentication to LDAP. Most users email address doesn't match with their registered email address in LDAP. Now, users are not able to see their previous works which is expected of course but I have no clue how to fix it. Please help. 

Cheers,

Teshome

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