[ckan-dev] delete user

Thu Apr 24 12:12:50 UTC 2014

The reason is that ckan saves history and has activity streams. The
activity stream points to users. If you just delete a user, that destroys
the history. This is why we have delete and purge functions for most
actions.

Nigel Babu
Developer, Open Knowledge

On 24 April 2014 16:55, Fabrizio Fornari <ckanappoggio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nigel,
>
> I created an Issue https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/1668.
>
> But I was wondering why you decided to mark an user as deleted instead of
> completely removing it. The point is that in this case if a user will be
> deleted none can use the same username again.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> This is because deleted users are not completely deleted from the
>> database. The state is marked as deleted. However, you're right. We should
>> either not show users in deleted state or show the state when `paster user`
>> is called from the command-line. Can you file a bug for this?
>>
>> Nigel Babu
>> Developer, Open Knowledge
>>
>>
>> On 23 April 2014 19:03, Fabrizio Fornari <ckanappoggio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I am running ckan 2.2 and I deleted an user using the command :
>>>
>>> "paster user remove user_name -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini"
>>>
>>> this, removes the user from the list shown at the page
>>> myckanaddress/user but if I do "paster user list -c
>>> /etc/ckan/default/production.ini", the user that I deleted is still there.
>>>
>>> What can cause this behaviour?
>>>
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