gerrit/Documentation/pgm-LocalUsernamesToLowerCase.txt
Edwin Kempin 8803103ebe LocalUsernamesToLowerCase: Reindex accounts after updating external IDs
LocalUsernamesToLowerCase is changing the case of external IDs in the
"gerrit" scheme. Since the external IDs are stored as fields in the
account index the corresponding accounts must be reindexed.

LocalUsernamesToLowerCase as a site program doesn't have the account
index available and hence can't do the reindexing itself (at least not
without blowing up the Guice injector stack). Instead invoke the reindex
program to reindex the accounts. This is the same approach that was
taken for the MigrateToNoteDb program which was added in master. This
will reindex all accounts and also means that the
LocalUsernamesToLowerCase program cannot run in parallel to the Gerrit
server. This should be okay since running LocalUsernamesToLowerCase is a
one time effort when you want to configure case-insensitive login for
Gerrit.

Change-Id: I6f2804ece996b22ec834aaebf209dac3b5b89415
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
2017-07-04 23:23:09 +00:00

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= LocalUsernamesToLowerCase
== NAME
LocalUsernamesToLowerCase - Convert the local username of every
account to lower case
== SYNOPSIS
[verse]
--
_java_ -jar gerrit.war _LocalUsernamesToLowerCase
-d <SITE_PATH>
--
== DESCRIPTION
Converts the local username for every account to lower case. The
local username is the username that is used to login into the Gerrit
Web UI.
This task is only intended to be run if the configuration parameter
link:config-gerrit.html#ldap.localUsernameToLowerCase[ldap.localUsernameToLowerCase]
was set to true to achieve case insensitive LDAP login to the Gerrit
Web UI.
Please be aware that the conversion of the local usernames to lower
case can't be undone.
The program will produce errors if there are accounts that have the
same local username, but with different case. In this case the local
username for these accounts is not converted to lower case.
After all usernames have been migrated, the link:pgm-reindex.html[
reindex] program is automatically invoked to reindex all accounts.
This task cannot run in the background concurrently to the server;
it must be run by itself.
== OPTIONS
-d::
--site-path::
Location of the gerrit.config file, and all other per-site
configuration data, supporting libraries and log files.
== CONTEXT
This command can only be run on a server which has direct
connectivity to the metadata database.
== EXAMPLES
To convert the local username of every account to lower case:
----
$ java -jar gerrit.war LocalUsernamesToLowerCase -d site_path
----
== SEE ALSO
* Configuration parameter link:config-gerrit.html#ldap.localUsernameToLowerCase[ldap.localUsernameToLowerCase]
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