Sure, that makes sense, but it also makes sense that we don't want to delete users because of accounting and auditing reasons. Many enterprise level blogging sites want the ability to keep detailed accounts of everything that happens in the system. i.e.
user "foo" created weblog "blah" at such and such a date. admin "xxx" disable weblog "gahhh" at such and such a date. and on and on. when you delete users you delete the relationships which are part of that accountability, so I think Dave's point about not deleting users has a lot of merit. i'm sure that ultimately we will try and set things up so that a site admin can choose to go either way depending on how they want to run their site, but until we have that properly sorted out we aren't willing to make user deletion easy. -- Allen On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 13:09, Gili wrote: > Bah, maybe I am being picky here but it really bothers me that you > cannot delete a user. Eventually you end up with thousands of "dead" > (idle) users and new users cannot register accounts with the same name > and you have resources needlessly rotting away. > > Ideally I'd like to see the ability to manually delete users and > automatically idle accounts that have been idle for more than X days > (say a year or two). > > Gili > > Bryce Fischer wrote: > > That makes sense. Just a aesthetic thing, on the edit user page, the header > > says: > > > > "You can change a user's profile, give them global admin privileges or even > > delete them permanently." > > > > Might remove that last part, as it is a little confusing. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Bryce > > > > btw, kudos to the documentation team. Installation on JBoss 4.x was a cinch > > following the instructions to the letter. > > > > On 12/1/05, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>We don't provide a way to delete a user, but it is possible to disable > >>users. We did that for auditing purposes, but I'm not sure it's > >>necessary. We might have to reassess that decision. > >> > >>For the SQL saavy: if a user has no weblogs and no weblog entries, you > >>should be able to delete them from the database (i.e. the rolleruser > >>table) without a problem. > >> > >>- Dave > >> > >> > >>On Dec 1, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Bryce Fischer wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I'm using a freshly installed version of Roller version > >>>2.0-incubating. I > >>>created a user, and now want to delete him. I cannot find anywhere I > >>>can > >>>delete the user. There doesn't appear to be anything on the User > >>>Management > >>>page to delete. > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>>Bryce > >> > >> > > > > -- > http://www.desktopbeautifier.com/
