On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 08:23 AM, Stuart Bishop wrote:
It would be much better if the user folder allowed to disable the user (something random could be eventually guessed, besides you'd have an indication that the user is inactive/old/obsolete/whatever).
BTW: there are other cases that make removing old users impractical besides permission problems (think about workflow history, cmf metadata, etc.)
And if they are relying on the user object to remain around for ever, they are broken IMHO. Consider the user folder that is populated from an external source such as a company's LDAP server.
Typically, a deleted user is either assigned to the administrator, or the admin is given the option of re-assigning those items to a different user. Either way, ownership is not broken, and a log can be preserved of this re-assignment for cases where such archiving is needed. ___/ / __/ / ____/ Ed Leafe http://leafe.com/ http://opentech.leafe.com