[savannah-help-public] [sr #108630] delete user doesn't

[Karl Berry]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?108630>

                 Summary: delete user doesn't
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: karl
            Submitted on: Thu 14 Aug 2014 03:35:21 PM PDT
                Category: Savannah website
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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        Operating System: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hi friends - as we saw on savannah-help-private, a user requested his (old,
inactive) account be deleted.  I saw no reason not to do so, so I tried: as
superuser in the web interface, I went to
https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/userlist.php?user_name_search=ROCE
(there is only one user there -- I'm trying to avoid saying his username or
real name, Streisand, etc.) and did "delete".  and in fact its status is
deleted and the user does not show up in a normal search for "people".  So I
think the delete did what it's intended to do.

However, the user page, https://savannah.gnu.org/users/USERNAME, is still
there with all the same information. (And doing an obvious google search will
find it.)  This does not seem right, and is not what the user wanted.  It
would be better if the web page just said "account deleted" with no real name,
no date, no anything.

Would someone like to implement this?  I mean, I could zap him out of the
databases, but That Seems Wrong :).

A second, separate, issue: the user in question was also a member of two
groups (gnubik and aim) and setting the "delete" status did not remove the
user from those groups.
This also seems wrong to me.  In any case, for now we should be aware that the
group removals need to be done manually, off
https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/usergroup.php?user_id=NNNNN.

Thanks,
Karl





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