i will answer all posts, as long, as mail mail is not removed with this text
Am Di., 10. Nov. 2020 um 02:39 Uhr schrieb Deborah Pickett < [email protected]>: > Hi Cyrus list, > > Is there a canonical list of steps to completely purge a user from a > Cyrus server? > > I need to remove a user from a 3.2 server. Here is what I have already > done: > > - Deleted the user from the linked LDAP database so that mailboxes won't > get automatically created again if someone sends a mail to them. > - Copied the filesystem folders containing the user's mailboxes to > offline storage. > - Deleted the user's mailboxes in `cyradm` (First running `sam` to > permit the cyrus user to run `dm`, then running `dm`). > > I am happy to let these deleted mailboxes expire automatically after the > normal expiry period. Or I could force-delete them, whatever. > > But I don't think I'm done yet. There will still be mentions of the > user in various files in /var/lib/cyrus. My understanding is that there > is no one file that corresponds to a "master list" of users, like there > would be in a traditional relational database. A user exists merely by > virtue of being mentioned in other databases. > > Files in /var/lib/cyrus: > > backups.db > annotations.db > deliver.db [*] > domain/x/xxxxx/quota/u/user.uuuuu > domain/x/xxxxx/shared.counters > domain/x/xxxxx/user/u/uuuuu.* > mailboxes.db [*] > shared.counters > statuscache.db > tls_sessions.db [*] > user/uuuuu.* > user_deny.db > > I think the ones marked [*] will be taken care of for me in various > ways, but the others? Do I have to manually run `cyr_dbtool delete` to > remove any mention of the user in these databases? Can I just delete > the files matching uuuuu's name? > > Also the user might be granted access to other mailboxes (shared or > other users) so am I going to have to run `cyradm` `dam` to clear out > any mention of the user? > > -- > Deborah Pickett > System Administrator > Polyfoam Australia Pty Ltd > ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Info Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/T885fb5bdec9b8b7e-Me50f90d28071771f6c14cb94 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/subscription
