Renaming user login

Management and Administration
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jking13 wrote on Thursday, August 14, 2014:

Is there any harm in renaming a user’s login – someone created two accounts with the same login somehow, and I’d like to rename (I’m assuming I can just do an update on the column in the db) and deactivate one to avoid confusion.

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blankev wrote on Thursday, August 14, 2014:

It is an interesting question. I did the same and login with credentials of the second same name got me into OpenEMR, but with the name of the first User.

I suppose you can deactivate User and make a new User name for that person. It is hard to change the Login name. I also don’t know if it is possible to do it without harm in the Database.

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fsgl wrote on Thursday, August 14, 2014:

Two options:

  1. Make the unwanted user inactive. Safer to do this because it’s easily reversible & no mucking about in the database. See attachment.
  2. Delete that user in the database on a test copy first if there is any uneasiness about wrecking the database before changing database on production copy.