Snipe-it: Question for users: do you need (or do your users use) the Edit Profile/Email address/Password stuff?

[snipe]

What I'm trying to decide is whether I want to remove the ability for users to edit their own information (such as password, name, email address), since that's something superadmins may not want to have overwritten. Do you or your users actually use this, or should I pull it out for v3?

I don't mean the ability for superadmins to edit user info, only the part that allows users to edit their own stuff.

[veen1981]

I think most of our users would only need to be able to change their passwords. As long as they were still able to do this through the forgot my password link on the signon screen, I personally would see no issue with scrapping this.

[jeffreytigch]

We are using LDAP for users to sign in and to get info, so we don't want our users to be able to edit within Snipe.

[brianjking]

In the organizations I use Snipe-IT with most of the users aren't even aware that the system exists. As long as the password reset function stays as @veen1981 referenced I'd say I'd be okay too.

[ghost]

Same here as @brianjking
I use Snipe-IT and my users just doesn't know that they are in the system.

[SylentBobNJ]

If it frees up resources to work on other awesome features, let it die. We have no plans to bring users onto the system in my organization so, for us, it's not a needed feature at this time.

[bailantilles]

+1 for using LDAP for authentication. No need for password or email changing

[xxtheatrainxx]

Personally I would like it if the admin had the ability to allow/restrict users the ability to change their info. Passwords through the reset password function is good, but I wouldn't want my users to log in to check something out and then decide they were going to be cheeky and change their un/email/notes/etc...

I can see how this would be a welcomed feature in some environments, but it could cause a lot of hassle in others.

[pramos84]

Like others here, we use Snipe-IT with LDAP authentication, so we don't want let our users modify their own profile. But, personally, I like the photo in profile, and it's not reasonable that admins upload pictures for each user, so I don't know how is the best way to do this. Maybe the LDAP sync could bring this data from LDAP (using thumbnailPhoto field in AD, for example).