Unable to change email address of Administrator due to LDAP
Hey there,
I have an on prem install of GitLab Omnibus in version 11.4.5. I need to change the e-mail address of the Administrator Account (ID: 1 - Username: root) that is created by GitLab automatically on installation. Currently this not possbile for me either from an other account with admin priviliges nor from the Administrator account itself.
The majority of our user accounts is backed by our Active Directory and uses the GitLab LDAP user backend. But the Administrator is not an LDAP user account. Anyhow GitLab shows me the following message unter the email text-field in the profile settings - and therefore won't let me change the address:
Your email address was automatically set based on your Windows Login account.
Windows Login
in this case is the name that we chose for the LDAP adapter in GitLab. The Admin account is a technical account directly in GitLab and was created by the system itself on installation. So it had nothing to do with your LDAP/AD user backend. Also the Administrator user hasn't any itentities stored in the user admin view under the Identities
tab.
Any ideas why GitLab won't let me change the e-mail address? I don't want to alter it via the database if possible.