I would like to automatically change usernames through the API so they match the email address. Our community has the policy that the username must be firstname.infix.lastname for a user with the email address firstname.infix.lastname@company.com . So far I have been changing people’s usernames sho…

I would like to dig this back up as I have a similar request. I need a newly registered user’s username to be changed to Firstname_Lastname automatically, but I am already using an SSO (Memberful) and they refuse to do this for ‘security concerns’ :roll_eyes: so I have to do it manually each time a …

from How does one change a username via the API? - #2 by blake : Try this endpoint instead: curl -i -sS -X PUT "http://127.0.0.1:3000/u/blake/preferences/username.json" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" \ -F "api_key=a66d01fbe98cc51b2747d8bfe99f81d7adca18317fbf3c43aa20f340d8e25bfe" \ -F…

Change username through API?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 8, 2018, 1:48pm 2

If everyone works for the company, the usual solution is to use sso. They way they can’t create the wrong username.

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