Sometimes it may be necessary to change the login
account for a user. The user's login account may have to be changed when,
for example, the user needs a new login account due to his or her last name being
changed or when login accounts are moved from one domain to another.
When a user login account must be changed, it is important to preserve the
vault user
associated with the original login account and to associate the same user with the
new login account in order to preserve the user history and the user's personal
settings in the vault.
Note: It is important to distinguish between
login
accounts and
users:
- Login accounts are server-level (or in some cases vault-level) accounts
that are used for authenticating users to M-Files Server. A login account can be associated with multiple users, but only one
user per vault.
- Users are vault-level objects that store user-specific settings and user
history and that have permissions to perform specific operations in a
vault. A user is linked to one and only one login account.
Do the following steps to correctly change a login account for a user after new
login accounts have been created in M-Files:
Results
The new login account is now correctly associated with the
existing user. Now when the user logs in using the new credentials, his or her previous
user history and personal settings in the vault are available.