@fselles Do you want #User-fselles or User-fsero?. I ask because normally we use the current Phabricator username for user projects. I guess there are no issues on User-fsero but asking first just in case.

@MarcoAurelio i prefer User-fsero in fact if there is a way to rename @fselles to @fsero that would be helpful too (i dont think i can because i guess comes from LDAP)

It's not pulled from anywhere and there is an option to rename a user that Phab Admins have. I'm looking for any "gotchas" to doing that before I JFDI.

(to be clear: you *link* your Phab account to your LDAP and mw.org accounts, see your settings/external accounts)

In T215245#4928185, @fselles wrote:

@MarcoAurelio i prefer User-fsero in fact if there is a way to rename @fselles to @fsero that would be helpful too (i dont think i can because i guess comes from LDAP)

So, renaming a user will probably break a bunch of links to your old name in the markup, if you're comfortable with that breakage we can do it. You're probably new enough it's not TOO bad.

@greg it's totally ok, i didnt got mentioned so much

Rename done.

From the rename dialog:

Be careful when renaming users!

The old username will no longer be tied to the user, so anything which uses it (like old commit messages) will no longer associate correctly. (And, if you give a user a username which some other user used to have, username lookups will begin returning the wrong user.)

It is generally safe to rename newly created users (and test users and so on), but less safe to rename established users and unsafe to reissue a username.

Users who rely on password authentication will need to reset their password after their username is changed (their username is part of the salt in the password hash).

The user will receive an email notifying them that you changed their username, with instructions for logging in and resetting their password if necessary.