Delete user via API

[laertecchla]

Hi, I would like to have a delete button on the Manage Users page in order to exclude an account. Is it possible?

[pdurbin]

@laertecchla thanks for your feedback.

For more context, @laertecchla and I were discussing the lack of a delete button on the "Manage Users" table in the dashboard I explained how to use curl as a workaround to delete the user: http://irclog.iq.harvard.edu/dataverse/2018-02-26#i_63734

[ajs6f]

As of now, as far as I can tell, the "Manage Users" page is actually just a list of users, and the only options available are the "Superuser" check box or "Remove All Roles". Do I understand correctly that any other management task is to be performed using curl or other HTTP client?

[pdurbin]

@ajs6f good point. What other users managements tasks would you like to perform?

[ajs6f]

I don't think they are unusual: Add/remove users, edit user metadata, issue password resets, add/remove roles, etc.

[ajs6f]

As a side note, this is not just a convenience for me: I will be filing a bug in a few minutes that in our new evaluation installlation, new users (who sign themselves) up are created with no roles at all (I checked the db to be sure) and the UI is failing for them. I would like to quickly correct that situation for at least some users so that we can go on with our evaluation of the product, but it now seems that I will have to learn something of the Dataverse API to do it. I.e. this issue is preventing us from even evaluating Dataverse as a product.

[pdurbin]

@ajs6f I'm sorry to hear about your trouble. Please do open that issue because I'm confused about why the UI is failing for new users (not having any roles is normal).

#2029 was closed a while ago for security reasons. It has a title of "SuperUser: grant ability to see and edit all user info and reset passwords (like we did in 3.6 as network admins)" and it referred to the previous generation of Dataverse, which was DVN 3. I'm not sure what the current thinking is.

@laertecchla do you and @ajs6f want the same things? Originally, you only wanted a delete button. I'm asking because we try to work in small chunks. The smaller the change, the faster it moves across our kanban board at https://waffle.io/IQSS/dataverse

[ajs6f]

I didn't mean to hijack this ticket. If you want to split up my larger request for different user management functions and leave this one as delete only, that's fine with me.

[pdurbin]

@ajs6f the conversation is way more valuable to me than our process, but yes, we might end up breaking the work into smaller issues, as needed. First I want to understand what the needs are. I do agree that the things you're asking for are very common in the type of software Dataverse is. I tend to think of it as "enterprise" software but maybe there's a better term for it.

[laertecchla]

@pdurbin I haven't understood what @ajs6f wants at all. Yes, I only wanted a delete button in order to exclude a user...

[pdurbin]

Heh. Ok, thanks, @laertecchla

@ajs6f if you would create a new issue about the user management functions you're interested in, it would be most appreciated!

[ajs6f]

I'd rather take the conversation over to #4515 for now, for reasons that will become apparent in my next comment to that ticket.

[pdurbin]

@laertecchla are you still interested in a delete button for users? You might be interested in the " User accounts - should users be able to request deletion of their accounts?" thread at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/nGVCS5L3vPk/GSjkx1-xCAAJ