Changes of displayname from auth providers are not reflected in synapse

[matrixbot]

This issue has been migrated from #4708.

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Description:

I'm using mxisd with matrix-synapse-rest-auth as password provider to sync users from LDAP/AD.

in mxisd.yaml I have:

ldap:
  enabled: true
  connection:
    host: 'xxx'
    port: 389
    bindDn: 'CN=xxx,OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx'
    bindPassword: 'xxx'
    baseDNs:
      - 'OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx'
  attribute:
    name: 'cn'

and in homserver.yaml

password_providers:
  - module: "rest_auth_provider.RestAuthProvider"
    config:
      endpoint: "http://localhost:8090"
      policy:
        registration:
          profile:
            name: true
        login:
          profile:
            name: true

When logging in with riot-web I can see the name correctly changing on every login in the top left corner whether I set the name: attribute in myisd.yaml to either 'cn' or 'displayName'.

Also curl https://matrix.domain.local/_matrix/client/r0/profile/%40matrixid%3Adomain.local shows the correct "displayname".

However in the riot-web/matrix profile the "Display Name" is not applied and/or changing accordingly, so in the rooms I already joined I still appear with the matrixid:server.xxx instead of the correct name: transferred by mxisd via LDAP.

In our organization it's quite common for names to change, e.g. because of marriage and thus it would be nice to have an option for synapse to force syncing the displayname to all rooms so users don't need to worry about, don't need to be instructed about and more importantly not making a support request about their old name still being shown.

For reference: kamax-matrix/matrix-synapse-rest-password-provider#6