For your consideration.
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From: Jose Maria Martinez chema@gmx.net Reply-To: chema@gmx.net To: webmaster@fedoraproject.org Subject: Brief Comment: Delete user feature Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:28:59 +0200
Hi,
Just a brief comment. It would be nice to have a "delete account" option in Fedora Accounts (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/home).
For instance, I have created, by mistake, two accounts. One of them, with an undesired username for this account (raistlin) and I can't see a way to delete the wrong account, and only leave the proper one:
Wrong Account: User: raistlin email: bursalia2k@yahoo.es
Proper One: User: chema email: chema@gmx.net
Thanks,
Regards,
-- Chema chema@gmx.net
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
For your consideration.
FWIW, I have the same; while showing someone how easy it was to register, I created kanarip2, not realizing that there was no "delete" or "expire account" button anywhere.
It would be nice to have some procedure to go about deleting these dummy user accounts which will most probably never turn active.
-Jeroen
On 2008-06-07 12:11:32 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
It would be nice to have some procedure to go about deleting these dummy user accounts which will most probably never turn active.
I'm not sure how painful deleting old accounts are, but we are currently working on the capability for users (and administrators) to mark an account as inactive (which would prevent it from being used anywhere unless its password is reset). Right now, the main question is just how it will appear in the interface (vs. how things like fasClient will see it).
Thanks, Ricky
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:19:57AM -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2008-06-07 12:11:32 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
It would be nice to have some procedure to go about deleting these dummy user accounts which will most probably never turn active.
I'm not sure how painful deleting old accounts are, but we are currently working on the capability for users (and administrators) to mark an account as inactive (which would prevent it from being used anywhere unless its password is reset). Right now, the main question is just how it will appear in the interface (vs. how things like fasClient will see it).
You also want to be sure any "deleted" account details get applied to all systems that may have been accessed by said account. Home dirs on various Fedora machines, directory permissions on any files owned by the now-deleted account, CVS ACLs, ... it's non-trivial to do so everywhere, but proper.
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:19:57AM -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2008-06-07 12:11:32 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
It would be nice to have some procedure to go about deleting these dummy user accounts which will most probably never turn active.
I'm not sure how painful deleting old accounts are, but we are currently working on the capability for users (and administrators) to mark an account as inactive (which would prevent it from being used anywhere unless its password is reset). Right now, the main question is just how it will appear in the interface (vs. how things like fasClient will see it).
You also want to be sure any "deleted" account details get applied to all systems that may have been accessed by said account. Home dirs on various Fedora machines, directory permissions on any files owned by the now-deleted account, CVS ACLs, ... it's non-trivial to do so everywhere, but proper.
Yep, my opinion is never delete accounts ever unless there's a need to. Just disable them.
-Mike
2008/6/7 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet@gmail.com:
For your consideration.
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From: Jose Maria Martinez chema@gmx.net Reply-To: chema@gmx.net To: webmaster@fedoraproject.org Subject: Brief Comment: Delete user feature Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:28:59 +0200
Hi,
Just a brief comment. It would be nice to have a "delete account" option in Fedora Accounts (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/home).
For instance, I have created, by mistake, two accounts. One of them, with an undesired username for this account (raistlin) and I can't see a way to delete the wrong account, and only leave the proper one:
Wrong Account: User: raistlin email: bursalia2k@yahoo.es
Proper One: User: chema email: chema@gmx.net
Thanks,
Regards,
-- Chema chema@gmx.net
There might be some legal considerations involved here. It might be prudent not to delete everything, as so much as just deactivate it.
Just my $0.02
-Yaakov
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