[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-15499) Add ability to have a Display Name for users in NiFi

["David Handermann (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Handermann commented on NIFI-15499:
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Thanks for proposing this improvement [~cr4g5].

Part of the challenge of supporting a display name would be sourcing that information from a given provider. NiFi does not store user information, it retrieves it from other sources. As you mentioned LDAP, that is a more natural source for a display name, and that could be configured from a configuration property indicating the LDAP attribute providing the name. Other sources outside of LDAP, or integrations with Single Sign-On such as OIDC or SAML may not have that information, although some do.

For completeness, can you list the application sections where you think the display name might be used?

> Add ability to have a Display Name for users in NiFi
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-15499
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-15499
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core UI
>    Affects Versions: 2.7.2
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Craig Patrick
>            Priority: Major
>
> At the moment, throughout NiFi the user information is displayed as what could be considered their "username" - that is, the information they use to log in. In some instances this might be convoluted, and in others is difficult to comprehend. As an example, for our integrations all of our users are LDPA and so we have things like:
> CN=my_user,OU=... etc etc.
> It would be nice if we could extend the user interface so we could add a "Display Name" which would be used throughout the UI so instead of the above, we could even name people as "Steve in Accounts" and clearly see who is making changes to processes, or who is updating flows - especially if usernames are even more obfuscated and convoluted.



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