Allow admins to disable users ability to change profile name
Problem to solve
Currently, users are allowed to change their profile name and Administrators cannot prevent this action. This activity can negatively impact the integrity of audit events within GitLab. Customers need confidence their audit events are accurate (and therefore reliable) for reporting and compliance management purposes. The reliability of user identification is a key component of all compliance frameworks since an organization must be able to prove who did what.
Proposal
Provide an instance-level setting for Administrators to prevent a user from changing their profile name.
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In Admin Panel -> Settings -> General -> Account and limit a checkbox to prevent user profile name changes. |
The User Settings -> Main settings -> Full name field for User becomes read-only and cannot be changed. |
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Administratorscan still modify aUser'sname if this setting is enabled
Links / references
Related to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15197
Customer ticket -> https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/105524 (internal use)