# Add LDAP users to channel by name

**URL:** <https://forums.rocket.chat/t/add-ldap-users-to-channel-by-name/6467>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Created:** [April 9, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/add-ldap-users-to-channel-by-name/6467 "2020-04-09T13:58:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![karabanga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df788c/32.png) [@karabanga](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/karabanga)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/add-ldap-users-to-channel-by-name/6467/1 "2020-04-09T13:58:20Z")

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Hi. I’ve configured RocketChat to use LDAP and synced users. I can find users for a private chat by name(real name) and by username (login).  
But I can only add them to channel by username only.  
Is it possible to add “name” support for adding users to channel?  
It is strange that users have to remember others logins.

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**Author:** ![karabanga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df788c/32.png) [@karabanga](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/karabanga)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/add-ldap-users-to-channel-by-name/6467/2 "2020-04-14T08:49:38Z")

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Got it. [https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/10655](https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/10655)  
I had to set UTF8 validation in General settings: [0-9а-яА-Яa-zA-Z-\_.]+  
Then the search began to work with Cyrillic and chanel names too.