Add a way for LDAP users to be created before first login
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Zendesk issue: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/27167
We often have questions about how users can be assign to groups/projects prior to their first login. Automatically importing/adding all LDAP users to GitLab ahead of time is not ideal because it would potentially use too many licenses. Still, it would be nice to have a way to let administrators pre-populate LDAP users. There's also the issue from the user perspective that seeing no groups/projects after first sign in can be confusing.
- What if we add an API endpoint where admins can specify usernames of users to pre-create?
- What about a rake task that allows specifying a list of usernames?
- EE-only, or would this be useful in CE, too?
Proposal
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Create the users as "deactivated" before first login - this wouldn't take up seats but would still create them, and then on first login they would activate.
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Allow adding specific username(s) to the API request to fetch it from LDAP to see which ones are already created in GitLab, and create it/them if they don't exist.