On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Samuel Lee <sam...@ncmir.ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Weird little problem.  I am trying to purge my xwiki of a lot of users
> who have left.  But when I delete the user, go to another part of the
> XWiki and come back to the users page, all my deletions are magically
> back.
>

It's probably an instance of this (just sent to devs list). The search
engine, or some user, is restoring your removed user/document by clicking
'restore'....

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Lets say you delete a spam user, e.g. /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/xanax via the
> administration tools.
> You then  log out as admin.
>
> Now, as an unregistered user, browse /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/xanax
>
> You'll be given a link to 'Restore' the deleted file e.g.
> /xwiki/bin/undelete/XWiki/xanax?id=47
>
> When an unregistered user clicks 'Restore' the file is restored (!! bug
> !!).
>
> Fortunately if the "restored" account is used for login, the user can't
> view or edit any files. IMHO there ought to be an additional option on
> deleting users which will also remove the account from the recyclebin or not
> recycle accounts.
>
> Unfortunately, if there's a file you wanted deleted, apparently an
> unregistered user will be able to find out it was there (say, through a
> search engine), and restore it if they want to.
>
> This is on 1.8RC2.
>
> Niels
> http://nielsmayer.com
>
> PS: quick and dirty solution -- set "xwiki.recyclebin=0"
>
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