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authorJacob Sánchez <jacobszpz@protonmail.com>2024-05-07 16:38:29 +0000
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-05-07 16:38:29 +0000
commit1b155362cac535ace799df786ace3c53e816d042 (patch)
treea616887fb025cc44d654491780328acca6788eec
parentBump serde from 1.0.199 to 1.0.200 (#17161) (diff)
downloadsynapse-1b155362cac535ace799df786ace3c53e816d042.tar.xz
Add note about external_ids for User Admin API in documentation (#17139)
-rw-r--r--changelog.d/17139.doc1
-rw-r--r--docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md4
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diff --git a/changelog.d/17139.doc b/changelog.d/17139.doc
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+Update User Admin API with note about prefixing OIDC external_id providers.
diff --git a/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md b/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md
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@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ Body parameters:
   provider for SSO (Single sign-on). More details are in the configuration manual under the
   sections [sso](../usage/configuration/config_documentation.md#sso) and [oidc_providers](../usage/configuration/config_documentation.md#oidc_providers).
   - `auth_provider` - **string**, required. The unique, internal ID of the external identity provider.
-    The same as `idp_id` from the homeserver configuration. Note that no error is raised if the
-    provided value is not in the homeserver configuration.
+    The same as `idp_id` from the homeserver configuration. If using OIDC, this value should be prefixed
+    with `oidc-`. Note that no error is raised if the provided value is not in the homeserver configuration.
   - `external_id` - **string**, required. An identifier for the user in the external identity provider.
     When the user logs in to the identity provider, this must be the unique ID that they map to.
 - `admin` - **bool**, optional, defaults to `false`. Whether the user is a homeserver administrator,