On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
1. Auth the user against the database using their email/passwd
2. Change the last auth value to a year ago.
3. Display a message that they have until the next quarter hour
to change their mind about deleting their account, and if
- Original Message -
From: Shane Chrisp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:45 PM
Subject: RE: [vchkpw] RE:(2) [vchkpw] Script for users to delete their own account
I think the following would be sufficient.
1. Auth the user against
Well, if you are using mysql, why dont you use the veloldusers program
periodicly to delete unused accounts? you can perhaps delete accounts not
logged in for 3 months. Like hotmail does.
I think its a really bad idea to think that user will delete his email
when he doesnt use it :) Well I dont
Now that's actually an idea I hadnt thought of. You could change the last
auth field for the user to some value like 12 months ago in the databasr
and then cron the vdeloldusers to delet anyone older than that value.
This wouldn't require any special permissions/perl scripts, just a crontab
