reivilibre
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6 months ago This feels like a reasonable expectation.
The enable_set_displayname: false option disables the API endpoint to set a displayname globally, but as you've noticed some clients have a /myroomnick (or similar) command which instead manually sends a single m.room.member state event to update the user's name in one particular room.
I think this is fair to call a bug, but it also is fair to call a feature request. But since it's not documented as a limitation even though it's a reasonable expectation, I'd say bug :p.
Description
Hello all. I bring to you today an oddly specific issue.
I am running a Synapse server (v1.103.0) and Element-Web frontend (v1.11.62) both via docker images. Users log into the environment using their LDAP credentials.
We decided it would be best to set "enable_set_displayname" to false in order to keep users using the LDAP provided display names.
While the setting does disable the ability for users to set their display name globally (/nick), they can still set their room display name (/myroomnick).
My initial expectation is that the setting would disable user abilities to use either of the commands that change their display name. When that wasn't the case, I was thinking I missed another setting to disable the (/myroomnick) option, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I am unsure as to the best path forward. I suppose if the "enable_set_displayname" is set to false, most people would expect that to disable custom display names completely. But, in the interest of more customization maybe it could be another setting to disable the (/myroomnick).
If it turns out I missed an existing option, I'm sorry you wasted your time reading this.
Steps to reproduce
Homeserver
private homeserver
Synapse Version
1.103.0
Installation Method
Docker (matrixdotorg/synapse)
Database
Workers
Single process
Platform
Synapse is running on a RHEL 8.9 VM under a ESXi hypervisor. The containers are running via docker-ce-25.0.3-1.el8.x86_64, using docker compose.
Configuration
-Server Notices -User Consent -ldap_auth_provider.LdapAuthProviderModule -auto_join_rooms -enable_set_displayname: false -enable_3pid_changes: false
Relevant log output
Anything else that would be useful to know?
I guess this might be considered a feature request instead of a bug? I'm sorry I'm not sure how to categorize it, bug seemed like the place to start. If I need to recreate this as a feature request please let me know.