LO72389: RENAMING A WEBUSER TO AN OLD OU FAILS WITH THE ERROR MESSAGE "A DOMINO DIRECTORY ENTRY FOR USER WEB USER/OU/ORG ALREADY EXISTS"

APAR status

• Closed as user error.

Error description

• Customer cannot rename a web user to an old used OU
  
  How to reproduce:
  By using the Admin Client:
  1 - Create a web user without notes id and assign to  an
  existing OU,ex.  User Web3/IBMTEST
  2 - Rename to a different OU,ex. User Web3/NEW/IBMTEST
  3 - Rename back again to the original OU
  ex: User Web3/IBMTEST
  
  
  The administrator receives an error message  "A Domino
  Directory entry for user User Web3/NEW/IBMTEST already exists"
  
  The customer says they are unable to rename users that are
  moving back to their old department
  

Local fix

• Remove the old entry from the person document
  

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is associated with SPR# YDEN8ZJK7G.
  The problem was caused by a user error or user misunderstanding.
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

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