[Mageia-sysadm] ldp account deletion

Sander Lepik sander.lepik at eesti.ee
Fri Nov 16 08:19:20 CET 2012


16.11.2012 09:01, Maât kirjutas:
> Le 15/11/2012 14:57, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>> Pascal Terjan skrev 15.11.2012 14:42:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Maât <maat-ml at mageia.biz
>>> <mailto:maat-ml at mageia.biz>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi sysadmins,
>>>
>>>     We received a demand (on the forum) to delete ldp's account :
>>>
>>>     https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3774
>>>
>>>     He confirmed in private message that he wants his accunt removed from
>>>     mageia systems.
>>>
>>>     I don't know precisely the process to follow so i perhaps made a
>>> mistake
>>>     in my answer.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think anyone does know, we probably need to check things like if
>>> he had posts on bugzilla and how bugzilla would react, etc
>>> Why would he want the account deleted and not only disabled? So that
>>> someone else can reuse it?
>> IIRC we decided to never remove a ldap account, only disable it, exactly
>> so that no-one else could "impersonate" or reuse same name,
>> as all services will happily reuse the same login for a different user.
>>
>> -- 
>> Thomas
>>
> Ok understood and agreed.
>
> Thanks for answering.
>
> Just a thing : french law requires that his personal data (name, email,
> ssh key, postal adddress) are removed upon user request.
>
> What can we do for that ?
>
> Maât
AFAIK he should be able to do that by himself.

--
Sander



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