3745360 - How to distinguish Users with identical names when adding to permission groups

• When adding users to a permission group, users with identical display names appear as indistinguishable entries in search results.
• Searching by a person's name returns all users with the same name.

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1. Open a permission group and choose to add users.
2. Enter a user's name in the search field.
3. Observe that multiple users with the same name are returned without a way to distinguish them.

Searching by name returns all users sharing that display name, and the add-user list does not provide additional identifiers to differentiate them.

1. Use the user's Username as the search keyword when adding users to a permission group.
2. Select the intended user from the results and add the user to the group.

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