Warum sollen LMU- und LRZ-Kennungen zusammengeführt ("verschmolzen") werden?

The coexistence of LMU and LRZ accounts causes confusion time and again. Many users are not clear which permission is attached to which account, where which account is managed and which service desk is responsible for it. For this reason, LMU and LRZ have started a joint project with the aim of merging the previously separately administered accounts.

In future, every member of the LMU will have only one account with which both LMU and LRZ services can be used. The accounts will be managed by LMU and equipped with basic services (e.g. VPN/WLAN via eduroam, ADS, cloud storage and Sync+Share). If an account requires further LRZ-managed services, it can be imported into an LRZ project by the respective master user and provided with the corresponding rights there, see Import LMU accounts. The new procedure also has the advantage that the accounts of employees who have left the LRZ are automatically deprovisioned and master users no longer have to worry about this.

The first step is to merge personal accounts and place them under LMU administration.

Once the project-based merging of personal accounts has been completed, the second step will be to transfer the functional accounts previously managed in the LRZ's IDM portal to the care of the LMU.

Once this has been done and all accounts are managed by LMU, the basis will be created to tackle another project, namely mail consolidation. The aim of this project will be to merge the previously separate address spaces - lmu.de addresses on the one hand and institution-specific addresses on the other - and to manage the mail addresses completely in the LMU portal. It should then be possible for an account to have both a lmu.de address and, for example, an econ.lmu.de address attached to it, and the owner of the account should be free to choose which of these addresses is to be used as the main or sending address.