User Specific Settings lost upon account rename
Hi,
I renamed my domain account's username and noticed that on the few entries in which I had user-specific settings I no longer have access to it (the user-specific settings are blank as if I'm considered a new user). Under Administration -> Users I can see my old account but can't rename it as the field is grayed out. Using SQL Server data source with domain accounts. Is there a way to simply rename my RDM user account? The SID for the account should have remained the same.
Fortunately this was only a few entries and I can recreate the settings if I need to.
Thanks
All Comments (4)
Hi,
For security reason, the username is used to encrypt the user specific settings. Unfortunately there is no way to retrieve those settings if the user name has changed. Sorry about that
David Hervieux
Wouldn't it be better to encrypt using the User's Windows or domain SID? (though I can imagine since you're trying to make this multi-platform that might not be the best solution)
It's not uncommon for usernames to change and if I had a lot of data encrypted with my username, that would be risky. I assume you can change the username back to get access to the encrypted data again?
It's not an issue this time but I'm glad I know this before I had a lot of data encrypted with my username.
Hi,
If you recreate the user, you will be able to get the data back. I think that we could create a rename user procedure to migrate a user.
David Hervieux
OK that's good to know. Rename user would be a good idea I think: especially in the case where a new user takes over for someone else and needs access to the previous user's data.
Thanks