authentik/website/docs/user-group/user.md

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title: User
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## Attributes

### `goauthentik.io/user/can-change-username`

Optional flag, when set to false prevents the user from changing their own username.

### `goauthentik.io/user/can-change-email`

Optional flag, when set to false prevents the user from changing their own email.

### `goauthentik.io/user/token-expires`:

Optional flag, when set to false, Tokens created by the user will not expire.

### `goauthentik.io/user/debug`:

See [Troubleshooting access problems](../troubleshooting/access.md), when set, the user gets a more detailed explanation of access decisions.

## Object attributes

The User object has the following attributes:

- `username`: User's username.
- `email` User's email.
- `name` User's display name.
- `is_staff` Boolean field if user is staff.
- `is_active` Boolean field if user is active.
- `date_joined` Date user joined/was created.
- `password_change_date` Date password was last changed.
- `attributes` Dynamic attributes, see above
- `group_attributes()` Merged attributes of all groups the user is member of and the user's own attributes.
- `ak_groups` This is a queryset of all the user's groups.

    You can do additional filtering like
    ```python
    user.ak_groups.filter(name__startswith='test')
    ```
    see [here](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/models/querysets/#id4)

    To get the name of all groups, you can do
    ```python
    [group.name for group in user.ak_groups.all()]
    ```

## Examples

List all the User's group names:

```python
for group in user.ak_groups.all():
    yield group.name
```