Question

Hi all, I need to remove users who are no longer active or have left the organization. I wish to retain the data they have contributed, but the User should be out of the User List. Please help as I am new to TWiki. TWiki is a wonderful concept ! Thanks, Best Regards

Environment

-- ManishKaduskar - 24 Jun 2004

Answer

At work we defined this procedure:

1. Edit user's home page; remove all lines except Name and Comment; add "Left company in June 2004" to Comment
2. Find out what groups user belongs to (use Ref-by) and remove user from all groups
3. Edit TWikiUsers page and move the user's bullet down to a <-- hidden --> section (in order to retain the login name to WikiName mapping)

This is based on the requirement to keep the signatures alive; and to hide the departed employees from the user list.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Jun 2004

On the other hand, if you don't want/need to keep the links alive, you should:

1. Delete the user from the .htpasswd file
2. Delete the user entry in TWikiUsers
3. Remove the user from all groups
4. Delete the user's page ("Main.username")

-- ChristianKohl - 30 Jun 2004