SrilathaG.17083 (Customer) asked a question.
Hey,
There is a limit set on the username in okta, which is from 1 - 100 in User API, i want to know if it is possible to increase the length. we have longer usernames
Hi @SrilathaG.17083 (Customer) , Thank you for reaching out to the Okta Community!
Currently, the character limit cannot be increased regardless if it's through API or GUI.
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@SrilathaG.17083 (Customer) I want to expand a bit on Mihai's answer. Actions such as updating a users profile in Universal Directory are all done via an API request. This is true if you perform it from the Okta Admin Console or via an API client such as Okta Workflows, Postman, cURL, etc. The same limitations will be applied. The main difference is the Admin Console may outright prevent a change (the option will be grayed out) or it may return a more "friendly" error than the API error response an external client would receive.
If you open developer tools (Such as Chrome Dev Tools) and update a user's profile through the Admin Console you will see the same API call being made as if you performed it via an API client.
The reason I wanted to expand on this is it is almost universally true. The only real exceptions are the Admin Console does have some "internal" API's it leverages that are not available to external API clients.
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@SrilathaG.17083 (Customer) I want to expand a bit on Mihai's answer. Actions such as updating a users profile in Universal Directory are all done via an API request. This is true if you perform it from the Okta Admin Console or via an API client such as Okta Workflows, Postman, cURL, etc. The same limitations will be applied. The main difference is the Admin Console may outright prevent a change (the option will be grayed out) or it may return a more "friendly" error than the API error response an external client would receive.
If you open developer tools (Such as Chrome Dev Tools) and update a user's profile through the Admin Console you will see the same API call being made as if you performed it via an API client.
The reason I wanted to expand on this is it is almost universally true. The only real exceptions are the Admin Console does have some "internal" API's it leverages that are not available to external API clients.