Changing names, emails, etc

The Lix project endeavours to not deadname people, because we believe in human decency. However, some of our software has other ideas. This page documents the workarounds to manually fix profile updates that don't get conducted because various software is busted.

wiki.lix.systems

The wiki does not update emails when they are changed via OIDC. Furthermore, users can't change them themselves. Why do they do this, we will never know; OIDC has persistent UUIDs, they have no reason to do this.

To fix a user's email manually, go to https://wiki.lix.systems/settings/users, and select the user in question and edit them.

git.lix.systems

Forgejo blocks username changes for accounts with external sign-in for no reason. These have to be fixed by an administrator. Go to https://git.lix.systems/admin/users, click the edit icon next to the user in question, then set the Authentication Source to Local, fix the username, then press Update User Account. Next, set the Authentication Source back to Lix.

OIDC has persistent UUIDs, there is no reason for Forgejo to do this.