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What is the best way to rename a user in Confluence?

Pankaj Jangid
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May 13, 2012

We run a Confluence instance over our organization LDAP user directory. Now a user is renamed in LDAP. What is the best way to migrate permissions/ownerships of all the content that the user has generated using older ID?

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Pankaj Jangid
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May 13, 2012

Found a document related to this in the Confluence 4.2 documentation http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+Usernames

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