0004228: Add a utility script to allow cleanup of user accounts - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004228	mantisbt	administration	public	2004-07-31 09:01	2008-05-08 13:52

Reporter	vboctor	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	confirmed	Resolution	open

Summary	0004228: Add a utility script to allow cleanup of user accounts
Description	In a database like ours (Mantis Bugtracker) there is a huge amount of user accounts. A lot of these accounts may be accounts that was created by users but never really used (i.e. never reported an issue, and didn't log in for a long time). We should come up with a criteria for detecting such accounts and deleting them. This will reduce size of comboboxes for reporter (in update page), reported by filter, monitored by filter, manage users page, ...etc. Feedback regarding the usefulness is appreciated. Also ideas regarding the criteria(s) to be supported to detect such users would be helpful as well.
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thraxisp 2004-08-04 08:46 reporter ~0006626	Doesn't the current Manage Users -> Prune accounts do this? It "deletes the users who have never logged in and are older than 1 week".

vboctor 2004-08-04 09:18 manager ~0006628	yes, that's true. But I am referring to users who may have signed up, logged in a couple of times, and then disappeared. Specially those that never reported an issue or contributes notes.

Loki 2008-01-22 12:27 reporter ~0016758	On the prune accounts option I don't think you can select which users to prune its all or none. Also in my mantis instance I need to disable multiple users instead of deleting the accounts. It is very tedious to disable 10 or more users. A more robust User Administration interface would be of great help. Thanks!

emathieu 2008-05-08 13:52 reporter ~0017798	I totally support all the proposal. We should have an automated (customizable) way of removing/disabling users and a way to mass-apply actions.