1. A method executed on a computing device for automatically reconnecting a user to cloud based services, the method comprising: determining a metadata attribute for a security principal managing access to a cloud based service for a user; creating a new security principal for the user; specifying a value of the metadata attribute for the security principal in a customizable metadata attribute in the new security principal; receiving a request for reconnecting the user to the cloud based service; and reconnecting the user to the cloud based service using a correlation between the metadata attributes of the security principal and the new security principal.