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Add possibility to enable/disable LDAP sync of user's name

Problem to solve

Beginning with %11.10 GitLab started to periodically update user's name from LDAP. This is not always the desired behavior.

Intended users

GitLab instance admins

Further details

We are authenticating users against a subset of our large enterprise AD (externally managed) with global corporate policies for naming users (in the case it is 'Last, First'). But for our local Git/GitLab we prefer another style ('First Last' or even in national translation). Before %11.10 this was easily possible by manual renaming a user's name after creation. Now it isn't - any changes get overridden by periodic sync.

Proposal

Add some configuration options to gitlab.rb/gitlab.yml similar to OmniAuth sync.

Links / references

#1974 (closed)