How-To: How can I make the firstname mandatory when creating a user?

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Problem

You have a service that needs the firstname of a user and to make sure, that every account has that field filled out, you want to make it mandatory. Per default, the firstname field is optional.

Solution

Create a new ucr variable with the udm object firstname:

ucr set directory/manager/web/modules/users/user/properties/firstname/required='true'

Then restart the UMC to apply the change:

systemctl restart univention-management-console-server.service