If you have associated a CentraSite user with an external user, you may wish to change the association to a different external user.

This can be required, for example, if the responsibility for certain CentraSite assets moves from one person to another person in the same authentication domain. By reassociating the user, you can keep the name of the CentraSite user unchanged while changing to a new external owner.

Another possible use would be to handle user IDs when the default domain name changes, e.g. when switching from operating system authentication to LDAP authentication.

CentraSite provides a command line tool ReassociateUsers that allows you to reassociate one or more CentraSite users with new external user IDs. The script implemented as an executable jar and can only be run by a user who has the CentraSite Administrator role.

This command line tool reassociates CentraSite users with new external user IDs. Any permissions that were granted for the old external user ID will be modified to grant those permissions for the new external user ID.