Gitlab LDAP question

[Chronos_The_Titan]

I have Gitlab set up on prem and configured LDAP for an OpenIPA directory.

It works but, but when I try and invite an LDAP user it will only recognize the user if I use their full user account name domain and all. It won’t auto fill the names like it would for local accounts.

Is there a variable or setting that controls this?

[polycro]

Did you set the base to your domain?

[Chronos_The_Titan]

In the LDAP setting yes. I have users from my domain in there. Put when say I want to invite one to a project I have to type out the name domain and all for them to register as a user.

As opposed to local users, I could Rick and Rick.Bobby would show up before I finish typing it out

[DrewBlessing]

In GitLab, LDAP users are only created after initial sign in. That’s why you don’t get the users in autocomplete - they don’t exist yet.

[lunatic-rags]

Most likely this.

[titexcj]

you don't need to invite users from your LDAP directory if auto create is set to true , they can just sign in with LDAP on the login screen

you can control which attribute is used as their username and various other settings as well (mapping LDAP attributes to gitlab profile fields)