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User Administration: Issue with Duplicate User Account


Sourish Sarkar (1111) | asked Jun 13 '14, 4:39 a.m.
edited Jun 13 '14, 4:47 a.m. by Ralph Schoon (63.1k33646)

User Account Error

Hello,

I am facing a strage problem (with saving a user's email configuration) as there are duplicate user accounts in Jazz registry mapped to the same id. Error message attached.

I have gone through few other discussions here and understand that complete removal of a user account is not allowed; we can only archive a user account. Howerver, I am encountering a situation where removal of user account appears to be the only solution. Could you please offer any help here?

Background:
- CLM v. 4.0.2.
- Jazz registry is synched with LDAP for authentication
- Initially when the user account was set up there were multiple changes made and multiple user accounts were imported into Jazz from LDAP
- I could see at least two different user ids for this individual; the differnce exists only in the casing of the first letter of user id. One user id starts with an upper case 'K' and the other user id begins with a lower case 'k'. Rest all characters are exactly the same in both user ids.
- I have archived the id with upper case 'K' and removed RTC license from it
- The user id with lower case 'k' was also archived, license was revoked; this is just to ensure I have all records clean
- Later I restored the user id with lower case 'k' and assigned an RTC license; here I noticed even the user id with upper case 'K' also got the same license assigned to it automatically. This indicates both the user ids are still mapped to each other.
- I am still unable to make any changes to the user's email preferences and be able to 'save' those changes due to the same error.

Thanks,
Sourish

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Sourish Sarkar (1111) | answered Jun 13 '14, 4:49 a.m.

Okay; on further investigation looks like the following Jazz and Technotes have a clue to it. But this requires a server downtime and I am not sure how safe this is to try on a Production environment (I am worried about the smooth re-integration of Jazz with LDAP after changes are made as this can impact all users if there are issues with Jazz/LDAP synch later) -

https://jazz.net/forum/questions/117302/how-do-i-remove-a-duplicate-userid

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470141


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Ralph Schoon (63.1k33646) | answered Jun 13 '14, 4:50 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
edited Jun 13 '14, 4:51 a.m.
There is a switch that can be set to ignore case sensitivity. Is that on?

You might be able to get rid of it by changing the user ID see tech-note mentioned in http://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/changing-the-jazz-user-id-using-the-rtc-plain-java-client-libraries/ . Mind the artifacts associated with the user ID you remove.

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Sourish Sarkar (1111) | answered Jun 13 '14, 5:02 a.m.

Could you please elaborate further on the switch you mentioned? How do I check that?


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Ralph Schoon commented Jun 13 '14, 5:58 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER

https://jazz.net/forum/questions/84934/rtc-user-id-case-sensitive-issue

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