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List:       fossil-users
Subject:    Re: [fossil-users] Deleting user?
From:       Andreas Kupries <andreask () activestate ! com>
Date:       2014-04-29 16:09:33
Message-ID: CAHKCdhJiq9EeE6+phxrMTraQwruh8Hyf+QCCcrZzsbXrzRWjLg () mail ! gmail ! com
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The usual way of disabling a user is (AFAIK) to drop all the user's
permissions, i.e.

    fossil user capabilities NAME ""

At that point the password does not matter anymore as the user is I
believe not even able to log in at all.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Stephan Beal <sgbeal@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:47 PM, BohwaZ <bohwaz@bohwaz.net> wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to delete a user from the database? I've got quite a lot
>> of ghost users (mainly spammers and hack attempts), that never posted
>> or contributed anything and I want to delete their accounts but can't
>> find any way to do that.
>
> That said, i would recommend (until we see a definitive answer) that you
> simply disable the accounts. e.g.
>
> fossil user password NAME XYZ
>
> will set the password to XYZ (which the attacker presumably does not know).
>



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