Question

From bash shell, as user root:

library:/var/www/html/wiki/bin# ./manage -user TestUser? -action deleteUserAccount -password qwerty

****************************** Can't locate object method "checkPasswd" via package "TWiki::User" at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Manage.pm line 112. TWiki::UI::Manage::_removeUser('TWiki=HASH(0x88c5f90)') called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Manage.pm line 61 TWiki::UI::Manage::manage('TWiki=HASH(0x88c5f90)') called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 97 TWiki::UI::__ANON__() called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 387 eval {...} called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 379 Error::subs::try('CODE(0x8a259f4)', 'HASH(0x8a1bf20)') called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 146 TWiki::UI::run('CODE(0x879f818)') called at ./manage line 33

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Can't locate object method "checkPasswd" via package "TWiki::User" at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Manage.pm line 112. TWiki::UI::Manage::_removeUser('TWiki=HASH(0x88c5f90)') called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Manage.pm line 61 TWiki::UI::Manage::manage('TWiki=HASH(0x88c5f90)') called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 97 TWiki::UI::__ANON__() called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 387 eval {...} called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 379 Error::subs::try('CODE(0x8a259f4)', 'HASH(0x8a1bf20)') called at /var/www/html/wiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 146 TWiki::UI::run('CODE(0x879f818)') called TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information.

Since the deleteUserAccount functionality seems to be there (although I cannot find anywhere a link to let the Admin call it), it should work I believe it should show up when an Admin goes to TWikiUsers and clicks on a user, or as a link on TWikiUsers itself, next to each user.

I've been to http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/HowToDeleteUserAccount and while its very helpful, TWiki really should be more user-friendly to delete a spamming, abusive user.

http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/HowToDeleteUserAccount/twiki-remove-user Seems to be very nice.

Environment

-- RonMiller - 10 Mar 2006

Answer

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Yes, agreed, it should. It would be great if someone could create a "delete user" admin page, but so far no one has managed to get there.

The error is tracked in http://develop.twiki.org/~develop/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item1850 BTW your problem above is due to a type; checkPasswd instead of checkPassword.

I would be very cautious of using any non-twiki script to remove users. Passwords, especially, are handled by a number of different pluggable management modules. Several of these modules will also handle groups in a future release.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 12 Mar 2006