Mailing List Archive: [Bricolage-General] user deletion issues-- a 'feature' or an 'issue'

[Bricolage-General] user deletion issues-- a 'feature' or an 'issue'

Mar 21, 2002, 1:58 PM

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Hi guys,

Just discovered that if you create a user, and then delete the user that has
stories/media/whatever checked out, you can't do anything about it. can
you? i tried recreating the person's first and last name, although i don't
know what the initial password was, so i made it up. no luck. still wasn't
able to get to that user's content with user override or logging in as that
newly created user.

so, this is, well, bearable, if there's at least a way to delete it off of
the cms. is there a trick someone may know about that i could try other
than what i've already done?

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Re: [Bricolage-General] user deletion issues-- a 'feature' or an 'issue' [ In reply to ]

david at wheeler

Mar 21, 2002, 2:24 PM

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At 4:58 PM -0500 3/21/02, Murray, Rachel wrote:

>so, this is, well, bearable, if there's at least a way to delete it
>off of the cms. is there a trick someone may know about that i
>could try other than what i've already done?

You need to remove those stories from the user's desk before you
delete the user.

We should probabyl add an item to the ToDo list to automatically
check stuff in for a user when the user is deleted, eh?

David

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RE: [Bricolage-General] user deletion issues-- a 'feature' or an 'issue' [ In reply to ]

RMurray at about-inc

Mar 21, 2002, 2:26 PM

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yeah, unfortunately (or fortunately ;), i neither added nor deleted the
user. :) any idea what we can do to fix this now? is there a way for the
bric admin to go in and magically delete stuff from the gui? i tried
accessing as bric admin, but no luck.

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From: David Wheeler [mailto:david@wheeler.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:25 PM
To: Murray, Rachel; 'bricolage-general@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Re: [Bricolage-General] user deletion issues-- a 'feature' or
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At 4:58 PM -0500 3/21/02, Murray, Rachel wrote:

>so, this is, well, bearable, if there's at least a way to delete it
>off of the cms. is there a trick someone may know about that i
>could try other than what i've already done?

You need to remove those stories from the user's desk before you
delete the user.

We should probabyl add an item to the ToDo list to automatically
check stuff in for a user when the user is deleted, eh?

David

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RE: [Bricolage-General] user deletion issues-- a 'feature' or an 'issue' [ In reply to ]

david at wheeler

Mar 21, 2002, 2:35 PM

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At 5:26 PM -0500 3/21/02, Murray, Rachel wrote:
>yeah, unfortunately (or fortunately ;), i neither added nor deleted
>the user. :) any idea what we can do to fix this now? is there a
>way for the bric admin to go in and magically delete stuff from the
>gui? i tried accessing as bric admin, but no luck.

Probably the best solution, at this point, is to have your DBA set
the active column in the usr table to 1 for the user you deleted.
Then, you can use the user override feature (if you're a global
admin), to pretend to be that user, and check in all her assets. Then
you can delete the user again. If you're not a Global Admin, you can
just log in as the user.

HTH,

David
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