On 05/29/2012 03:09 PM, helix84 wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Hilton Gibson<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi All >> >> See: http://scholar.sun.ac.za >> >> I use LDAP mainly for user provisioning using auto-registration. >> However, what will happen when a user is de-provisioned on our LDAP server? >> >> Will the person now have to create another "e-mail" account? >> Can I automatically link de-provisioning? >> In other words when the person is removed from the LDAP server can an >> API interface remove them from the repository? > Hi Hilton, > > If you have LDAP autoregistration turned on, LDAP users are added to > the eperson table as soon as they log in for the first time. DSpace > never removes them. When they are no longer present in LDAP, they > simply won't be able to log in. This is my fear. It will create confusion with previously authorised submitters. > > Purging old LDAP users from eperson wouldn't be a bad feature, just > remember that users may have deposited items, so you have to check > that first. The second consideration would be _when_ such purging is > run? Curation task? Command line invocation? > There already were discussions about deleting users who deposited some > items on this list, but status quo has been maintained - only manual > deletion is possible. > > Regards, > ~~helix84
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