SID-02225: Deleting Users From Twiki

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I am trying to delete users from Twiki and I found the below steps Step 1 is stright forward but step 3-4 docent have no detail on how to do the deletion?

1. Delete the user from the .htpasswd file

2. Delete the user entry in TWikiUsers (what is TWikiUsers and how do you access it)

3. Remove the user from all groups (how to access this all groups)

4. Delete the user's page ("Main.username") (how? where is this located?)

-- Adam Khan - 2016-07-12

Discussion and Answer

Deleting users from an active TWiki isn't done very often, because the contributions by these users should be properly attributed even if the users are no longer active - but I guess you are talking about users which have been added during the testing phase.

If you have access to your .htpasswd file (you need shell access for that), then you also have access to the rest:

• Main.TWikiUsers is a usual topic in your TWiki, you can just edit it with TWiki as a member of the administrators group. If you do it that way, the topic's history will be properly updated. With shell access, You can also directly edit the file data/Main/TWikiUsers.txt in your TWiki and delete the line containing the user. Such a change is hidden from TWiki's visible history.
• In Main.TWikiGroups, you see all groups of you TWiki (again, assuming you have the default user management in place). Just look where the user you want to delete shows up, and edit the groups. On the shell, a grep UserName data/Main/*Group.txt should do the trick as well, if you replace UserName by the user you want to delete.
• The user page is in the Main web, where all users are listed in Main.TWikiUsers. You can delete the users with TWiki's methods (using "more topic actions" in the "Edit" menu, then "Delete"), or again from the shell delete UserName.txt and UserName.txt,v.

-- Harald Jörg - 2016-07-12

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