Re: [Testbed-admins] User account deletion

[Mike Ryan <mikeryan@ISI.EDU>]

At DETER we're taking a leaf from UC Berkeley and creating
systematically named accounts (i.e., CS161-stu01). When a prof uploads
the roster we assign each user a systematic account and a new password.
Once the course is over the files can be wiped out and the passwords
reset accordingly.

Less database churn, and the total number of 'excess' accounts is
sup(enrollment) over all offerings of the course.

Mike Ryan
USC/ISI, Research Programmer

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:28:55PM -0400, Hussamuddin Nasir wrote:
> Thats fine, the only reason i would like a clean up is that we have 
> faculty who add around 20  students per class every semester . Over a 
> couple of years the number of residual account become huge..
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Hussam
> (Hussamuddin Nasir)
> 
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> 
> Robert P Ricci wrote:
> > We generally like to leave accounts in the database, because deleting
> > them messes up old logs and historical information.
> >
> > Those accounts shouldn't be able to log in or do anything at all.
> >
> > Thus spake Hussamuddin Nasir on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:24:27AM -0400:
> >   
> >> Hi guys,
> >>   I have a residual account from a delete. Every time i try to remove an 
> >> account from our Emulab, it does delete the physical account but somehow 
> >> gets left over in the web interface/MYSQL table. Is there a step that i 
> >> need to perform to do a clean user account deletion. We are running the 
> >> Emulab code from CVS
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >   
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