I can't confirm it is going to work without negative repercussions - I can only say that I cannot think of any non-obvious problems that would result from doing this. It seems like it is going to be the right thing to do in your case (but no promises :)). If it works, it would be super awesome if you update the wiki - thanks for taking the time to do that! -John On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz <hrh(a)fmi.ch&gt; wrote: > 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 > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > https://lists.galaxyproject.org/ > > To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: > http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/