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User account
When logged into their GitLab account, users can customize their experience according to the best approach to their cases.
Username
Your username is a unique namespace
related to your user ID.
Changing your username
You can change your username from your
profile settings.
Note: If you want to retain ownership over the original namespace and protect the URL redirects, then instead of changing your username, you can create a new group and transfer projects to it. Alternatively, you can follow this detailed procedure from the GitLab Team Handbook.
Changing your username can have unintended side effects.
- Existing web URLs for the user and anything under it (i.e. projects) will redirect to the new URLs
- Existing Git remote URLs for projects under the user will no longer work, but Git responses will show an error with the new remote URL
- The original namespace can be claimed again by any group or user, which will destroy any web redirects and Git remote warnings
It is currently not possible to rename a namespace if it contains a project with container registry tags, because the project cannot be moved.
User profile
Your profile is available from the up-right corner menu bar (user's avatar) > Profile,
or from https://example.gitlab.com/username.
On your profile page, you will see the following information:
- Personal information
- Activity stream: see your activity streamline and the history of your contributions
- Groups: groups you're a member of
- Contributed projects: projects you contributed to
- Personal projects: your personal projects (respecting the project's visibility level)
- Snippets: your personal code snippets
Profile settings
You can edit your account settings by navigating from the up-right corner menu bar
(user's avatar) > Settings, or visiting https://example.gitlab.com/profile.
From there, you can:
- Update your personal information
- Manage private tokens, email tokens, 2FA
- Change your username and delete your account
- Manage applications that can use GitLab as an OAuth provider
- Manage personal access tokens to access your account via API and authorized applications
- Add and delete emails linked to your account
- Manage SSH keys to access your account via SSH
- Manage your preferences to customize your own GitLab experience
- Acess your audit log, a security log of important events involving your account