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Changing DisplayName for Users

Submitted by tulio on Wed, 2010-08-11 16:20

Hi.

We're running Luminis IV since a couple of years.

Some students and teachers requested to change the DiplayName in Luminis, currently the person name and SSN is shown, but the SSN must be eliminated.

Does anybody know how to make this change for all Luminis users?

Thanks

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which?

Submitted by yeah on Thu, 2010-08-12 16:36.

Are you talking about the what shows up in the top left? Because to get the SSN to show up there, it would have been a customization.

Is it possible you've customized Banner to send it down this way?

SSN

Submitted by tulio on Thu, 2010-08-12 20:51.

Yes, when you first log in to the portal you see a legend, "Welcome..."
After that for all users the portal shows the name + SSN.

I don't think we have made such changes to Banner, but I'll have to double check it, (the people who worked originally in the design of our customization for luminis left the university more than a year ago).

Thanks for your help

I know this doesn't help get

Submitted by wjdennen on Fri, 2010-08-13 12:40.

I know this doesn't help get rid of the problem. But, it might provide some short term relief.

But, you could edit your custom.xsl:

<span class="uportal-channel-text" id="welcome"><xsl:copy-of select="$welcomeMsg"/> </span>

just remove "<xsl:copy-of select="$welcomeMsg"/>"

display name

Submitted by tulio on Mon, 2010-08-16 23:50.

Thanks I think this is going to be very helpful in the meantime!

Confirm

Submitted by rbalara on Fri, 2010-08-13 18:29.

Can you also confirm that the displayName attribute in the LDAP does not contain the SSN? Unless a customization was put in to add the SSN, it *should* only display "Welcome $displayName".

displayName

Submitted by tulio on Mon, 2010-08-16 23:49.

Well when I got into the System Administration Center, the DisplayName property contains the name with the SSN at the right.

That's it

Submitted by rbalara on Tue, 2010-08-17 16:19.

That's likely your problem. It appears they loaded the SSN into the displayName field. This is a huge security risk as I believe the displayName attribute can be viewed by any authenticated user on the system. I would confirm if this is the case right away.

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