Feature: short user and primary group names

[aussielunix]

Is there an existing request for this feature?

• I have searched the existing issues and found none that matched mine

Describe the feature

Having the full email mapped to uid / gid results in a lot of wasted screen realestate.

[email protected]@authd-01:~$ id
uid=67290([email protected]) gid=67290([email protected]) 

drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Music
drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Public
drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Templates
drwxr-xr-x  2 [email protected] [email protected] 4.0K Aug 30 06:36 Videos

Describe the ideal solution

I am not sure of how this could be implemented but a couple of thoughts:

• adding a way to allow to strip the domain part for the uid/gid number to name mapping OR
• adding an 'alias' field to the broker and use that when displaying username - mick.pollard@brokeralias

Alternatives and current workarounds

I have no work around or alternative to offer at this stage.

System information and logs

Environment

• broker version: 0.1
• authd version: authd 0.3.3
• gnome shell version: 46.3.1-1ubuntu1~24.04.1
• Distribution: Ubuntu
• Distribution version: 24.04

Log files

n/a

Authd entries:

journalctl -u authd.service

MS Entra ID broker entries:

journalctl -u snap.authd-msentraid.authd-msentraid.service

Application settings

Broker configuration:

# /var/snap/authd-msentraid/current/broker.conf
[oidc]
issuer = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/v2.0"
client_id = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"

[users]
home_base_dir = "/home"
ssh_allowed_suffixes = "@example.com"

Broker authd configuration:

# /etc/authd/brokers.d/msentraid.conf
[authd]
name = Microsoft Entra ID
brand_icon = /snap/authd-msentraid/current/broker_icon.png
dbus_name = com.ubuntu.authd.MSEntraID
dbus_object = /com/ubuntu/authd/MSEntraID

Relevant information

No response

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