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+[submodule "user-mgmt-ui"]
+	path = user-mgmt-ui
+	url = https://gitlab.geant.org/gn4-3-wp8-t3.1-soc/soctools-user-mgmt-ui.git
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+Subproject commit 0376f33bf0d369deee39952377cc35fe737fc4b9