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kevinpapst committed Jan 21, 2024
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title: "Deactivated users"
id: "uqENGIlBqeg"
category: User management

change_username:
title: "Changing username"
id: "MsS1oCZSVIM"
category: User management
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{% include youtube-video.html id="deactivated_users" %}


## System accounts

System accounts are users in Kimai, which are hidden in many places. They cannot be chosen from dropdowns,
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- your Admin accounts (which should not be used for daily work)
- API sync accounts

## Username / User-ID

The username is a system-wide unique identifier which can be used for logging into the system and it will be included in exports.

It shouldn't be changed without strong reasoning, but if you want to e.g. activate LDAP or SAML and see that you have to,
then a System-Administrator can do so by editing the user profile (editing your own username is not possible).

The field is hidden by default, you have to double-click the user header to show it.

{% include youtube-video.html id="change_username" %}

You should have a strong reasoning to change the username, e.g. think about API integrations and App logins.

## Supervisor

The supervisor setting is used notifications, e.g. work-contract related features, approval workflows and such.
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