Dear all Our production server uses Apache to handle external user authentication. I have now set up a new test server (16.04) which handles external user authentication via LDAP using the auth_conf file. This works nicely when using an empty database (I have managed to solve all last weeks problems). I have now connected my test server to a copy of the PostgreSQL database used on our production server. I try to log in, and I get: "This account was created for use with an external authentication method, contact...) and the login fails. If I now set external = 'f' in the galaxy_user table, it works Since manually modifying the database is a bad thing, I just want to double check, whether this is the right way to do it? If so, I will add a line or two to the wiki Many thanks for your help Hans-Rudolf -- Hans-Rudolf Hotz, PhD Bioinformatics Support Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Maulbeerstrasse 66 4058 Basel/Switzerland