[Mageia-sysadm] Invalid account

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:42, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 27 avril 2011 à 22:12 +0100, Pietr Petronov a écrit :
>> [Même message en français en dessous]
>>
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>> I suscribed quite a long time ago to Mageia, but I provided my email address
>> uncorrectly. I've probably written yahoo.fr instead of yahoo.com
>
> Yup, you used .fr and not .com.
>
>> I've never received the confirmation mail, so that I never could valid my
>> account. Yet it wasn't pruned and my Nickname isn't available anymore.
>>
>> Would you be kind enough to erase my account when you have a little time. I'd
>> like to get back my account with the same nickname : Petronov.
>
> Well, the question is "how can we be sure that the erasure demand is
> legit". Ie, if the account is in used, we cannot check it ( unless we go
> on every applications to seek ).
>
> I guess since the password was never changed, that the account was
> indeed unused. I can either erase it, or change the email.
>
> For the record, here is the ldap query I used on valstar :
> ldapsearch -L -h localhost -b "dc=mageia,dc=org" -D
> "uid=misc,ou=People,dc=mageia,dc=org" -Z  -W
> '(&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(!(pwdChangedTime=*)))' cn uid  mail
>
> We do have 27 non activated account, I guess we could decide to prune
> them sooner or later ?

I think an account not activated within a (few) day(s) should indeed
be deleted (and this should be announced at creation time)

>> Thank you.
>>
>> And thank you for the great work you do on Mageia.
>>
>>  P. Petronov
>>
>> PS : You may also want to check first that the count is really unused if ever
>> another Petronov came while I was waiting my account to be deleted.
>
> Accounts are not deleted ( yet ).