Editing the time zone for a user

[yliya1991]

Expected behavior

I as a user want to be able to edit the timezone in Edit profile

Current behavior

As a user, I log into the web interface of the graylog -> Edit profile with my username and password, after clicking the Edit User button, nothing happens.

Possible Solution

Add the ability for an external user to edit Settings, Preferences via Edit profile -> Edit User

Steps to reproduce (for errors)

I use the active authentication service - LDAP, the role of the reader, to enter I enter my username and password -> Edit profile -> Edit user

Context

The ability to edit the time zone is available only if you go under the admin login -> Users and Teams -> select the desired user -> Edit User, I want it to be available to an external user.

Your environment

• Graylog version: 4.0.3
• Java version: 1.8.0_275
• Elasticsearch version: elasticsearch-oss: 7.9.3
• MongoDB version: 3.2
• Operating system: Linux version 5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64
• Browser version: 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build)

when I go as an external user

when I log in with the admin login and password

[rtudo]

@yliya1991 - did you find any alternative here ? I am also blocked on this. User's can't edit their timezone when we enabled ldap based authentication and basically whole of their debugging is affected. we only noticed this later and can't go back and have to use ldap based auth.

[yliya1991]

@yliya1991 - did you find any alternative here ? I am also blocked on this. User's can't edit their timezone when we enabled ldap based authentication and basically whole of their debugging is affected. we only noticed this later and can't go back and have to use ldap based auth.

Hi, I added configuration to my file with graylog :

• name: graylog_root_timezone
  value: "EUROPE/KIEV"

I haven't found another solution yet.

[rtudo]

@yliya1991 - got it. For my use-case, users are from different geos and they need to set it differently depending on the region they are working for at that moment. Unfortunately which is not possible right now :(

[rtudo]

@bernd - is there a plan to pick this up ? (This will really unblock a critical blocker for me :( )

[yliya1991]

@bernd - is there a plan to pick this up ? (This will really unblock a critical blocker for me :( )

hello, I checked yesterday in the new version 4.1 this functionality is available there, but the graylog itself does not work in the Enterprise, if without the Enterprise, then you can try version 4.1

[rtudo]

this is working and proving very helpful. I have verified and allows users in my org to now update timezone as per their need.

[bernd]

This has been fixed.

[charlyfeck]

Hi, I'm using Graylog 5.0.4+b36a21a, and External Users account are unable to update the timezone as reported by @yliya1991. So I think the issue was not fixed.

The workaround I found is that it is possible to "remove" UTC timezone in the user profile and in that way it uses server timezone. This works only in the case the user's timezone has to be the same as the server.