Rename Account Name by duplicating to a new Account Name?

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Hello all,

thx for this excellent community - and kudos to all who support and help solving problems!

I am looking for a solution to change an Account Name. It seems like the initial name chosen is too obvious and thus many faulty attempts to log in with that name lead to disabling this account.

According to the manuals, there is no way to rename the Account Name. (is that still true?)

My thinking is that an alternative option could be to dump/export all records from that Account and basically import them to another account name?

Is there any solution like this available? I did not find any hint in the docs…

thx in advance for your kind support!

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There is an option to transfer ownership on files and items… this could even keep incoming and outgoing shares active…

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/occ_command.html#transfer

read all the details and maybe try with a fake user before. I was under impression there is an option in the UI as well but I’m too lazy to search further found the app occasionally Ownership Transfer - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud

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Hello, file transfer seems to be the easier (to solve) problem. I am more into calendar entries which I seem to not be able to transfer to a new user: any ideas here? Thx in advance!

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since contacts and calendar are not stored as files per se, but rather in the database, they need to be exported and imported into the new account, thus the simplest method would be to export the calendars in the Nextcloud UI:

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and import these in the new account.

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So far theory:

I just did this as follows, assume two users:
userold << this is the existing one
usernew << freshly created new user

userold >> export >> .csv file was generated
logout userold, login usernew
usernew >> import >> ca. 90% of all calendar entries were imported (some 10% were not, no further explanation why not), regardless of which calendar was selected

Did I miss any settings, or import parameters?
And how can i see which 10% imports failed?

Again, thx in advance

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yeah… so true

assuming the same version of contacts on both instances, possibly sql logs… you could also have a look at the csv file itself and see if there is a character issue somewhere.

how many entries are 10% ? maybe export each contact manually and see whether there is an issue.

I’ve personally never had an issue except initial transfer from gcontacts before converting csv format to utf-8… but that was 6 years ago :smirk:

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I did a validation of the various ical files via

and all turned out to be valid.

Each ical file is ca. 150-250kB in size and thus contains 100s of entries, I am afraid… no chance to go through each item one by one…

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This ics file can not be imported, while shown as “valid” in the a.m. validator (pls note that both header and rest was generated by Nextcloud itself, using the export function):

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//SabreDAV//SabreDAV//EN
X-WR-CALNAME:myBirthdays
X-APPLE-CALENDAR-COLOR:#ACF0AA
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT4H
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT4H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/Berlin
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:19700329T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:19701025T030000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:W. Europe Standard Time
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:19701025T030000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYHOUR=3;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=10
TZNAME:W. Europe Standard Time
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:19700329T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3
TZNAME:W. Europe Daylight Time
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE 
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
DTEND;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20200330T183000
DTSTAMP:20200420T110124Z
DTSTART;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20200330T180000
PRIORITY:5
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYMONTHDAY=30
SEQUENCE:1
SUMMARY:Birthday- Letizia (2012) 
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:092735D5-3805-4D08-A71A-51BDBB3DD76E
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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btw did you try User migration - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud already? maybe it work more smooth than individual export. at least it’s only one tool you have to troubleshoot in case of.

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From what I understood, this migration would work from one server (cat…) to another server (dog…) but it does not change the user name / account name.

My point initially was that the current account name was too obvious and that is why the “rename account name” was the thing I was after, only possible to do via export/import from what I heard so far.

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this is the goal… but I’m not sure constant user name is a must… IMHO one can’t expect username remains the same when moving to another (hosted) server…

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Is disabling accounts after too many login attempts (via the password_policy app presumably?) a hard requirement?

Otherwise you may be able to rely more on Brute Force Protection and, possibly, the Suspicious Login app.

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Maybe this App helps: