[🐛 Bug]: Bug on User Initials displayed on the UI when signed in.

[evelita17]

Describe the bug
When I configured keep with oauth2-proxy with gitlab as my oidc provider, users' icon for at the bottom left still shows "KE" instead of the user's initials.
Also, the user initials are showing with 'C' under settings -> Users and Access. For instance, my email used for oauth2/oidc is e.merizalde@gmail.com. In keep, it shows as 'EC' Why all users have the C on their initials?

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Settings

2. Click on Users and Access

3. Click on Users

4. See all users displayed with the 'C' i.e Robert Garcia shows RC, Juan Puebla shows as JC, etc.

5. Go to UI

6. After user signs in, bottom left shows KE instead of the user itself.

Expected behavior
Bottom left icon should show Users initials as signed in and not KE

[dosubot]

Based on the codebase, user initials in the UI are generated by the getInitials function, which extracts initials from the user's name using a regex pattern. The UserAvatar component displays these initials when no profile image is available. If the user's name is missing, the code defaults to using "Keep" as the name, which results in the initials "KE" being shown in the UI. This explains why you see "KE" at the bottom left after signing in if the user's name is not set or not being passed correctly from your OIDC provider or oauth2-proxy configuration [source].

For the issue where all users have a "C" in their initials (e.g., "EC" for e.merizalde@gmail.com, "RC" for Robert Garcia), the getInitials function is designed to extract the first character of each word in the user's name. If the name is missing or not properly parsed, it may fall back to using the email or another string, which could explain the unexpected "C" if, for example, the name is being set as the email or another value containing a "C" [source].

There are no existing issues or documentation specifically addressing this bug. The root cause is likely that the user's name is not being correctly populated from your OIDC provider, causing the fallback to "Keep" or another default value. You may want to check:

• How user information (especially the name) is mapped and passed from GitLab via oauth2-proxy to Keep.
• If the user object in Keep contains the correct name field after authentication.
• If not, updating your oauth2-proxy or OIDC claim mapping to ensure the name is set should resolve the issue.

No relevant configuration or troubleshooting steps for user initials display were found in the documentation. The problem appears to be in how user identity information is handled during authentication, not in the UI logic itself.

To reply, just mention my name @dosu.

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[evelita17]