[TYPO3-english] User deletion, what's about the page ownership?

[Wiel, J.A.M. van de]

Hi there,
What you describe is exactly the reason why we never actually delete users but simply disable accounts. The permissions model in TYPO3 borrows a lot from UNIX, where you have the same behavior. Files and directories can get orphaned very easily and only the admin can help that. Really sucks sometimes when you have strict filesystem quota. It should be pretty easy to show a message like "user still owns 200 pages, reassign to another user?" But what about all kinds of other records? Users can also own records in a whole range of other tables. TYPO3 would have to scan the whole database to see if the owner field is present and if so, check it and offer reassignment options for all applicable record types. That could become quite a heavy operation DB-wise as well as GUI-wise. I like the idea, but it'll probably require quite a reworking of the user admin BE module (which could use it).

Actually I have quite a wish list for the BE user admin module. Is there any kind of coordinated development going on in that area? Would be good to know before I start to hack it to shreds myself as part of our complete website rebuild soon.. ;-)

Bas
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From: typo3-english-bounces at lists.netfielders.de [typo3-english-bounces at lists.netfielders.de] On Behalf Of joel zimmerli [baden32 at yahoo.fr]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 5:40 PM
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Subject: [TYPO3-english] User deletion, what's about the page ownership?

I'm a litle bit surprised with the behaviour I got on my Typo3 ver 4.2.6 when I deleted a user owning a few pages:

-the user is just deleted, no warning about the pages ownership
-the remaining pages are just orphean (no owner anymore)

That means I have to find manually all the pages owned by this old user and change the ownership information.

Am I missing something here? I would expect to get a more secure behaviour: in example, Typo3 must check if the user I want to delete DOES own some pages. If yes, ask if I want to transfer the ownership to other user(s).

Is that poitn of view correct and implemented in Typo3?
Thank you for your feedback.
Bad.



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