Create GitLab user if it doesn't exist about renku-gateway HOT 5 CLOSED

So how is this supposed to work? Someone creates an account in RengKu/Renga and gets automatically registered in Keycloak but not in Gitlab?
Making a user manually in Gitlab (not via RengKu) that already exists in Keycloak does not work.

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Yes, pretty much. Creating an account in Renga is equivalent to creating an account in Keycloak. Now when someone logs into GitLab by clicking the Renga Login button and entering her Renga credentials for the first time, the user info is taken from Keycloak and a new GitLab user is created from this. We don't want the user to see the GitLab login page anymore, so we need to create the corresponding GitLab user through the API.

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Did you try this? This morning we tested this, making a user in Keycloak and then in Gitlab. This creates an error.

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I have just tried it, yes. I've registered as a new user in keycloak and then added this user as a new user to GitLab through the API. What didn't work (and I think that's what you were referring to) is using this user then to log into the GitLab page. Not sure if we care...?

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Actually, one can add the external identity provider during user creation. I've used the following post data to create the user:

{
	"username": "demo",
	"email": "[email protected]",
	"name": "John Doe",
	"extern_uid": "demo", 
	"provider": "oauth2_generic",
	"skip_confirmation": true,
	"reset_password": true
}

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