Deleting accounts

The general policy is to delete accounts after one week. In practice accounts aren't deleted but locked as we don't want to delete any data, especially in the blogs and wiki. Procedure:

• Lock the main account on hail:

hail:~# passwd -l <username>  # Lock account
hail:~# cd /var/yp
hail:~# make

• Change the blog password to a random value:

  • Go to http://blogs.vislab.usyd.edu.au/admin

  • Select Users-><username>

  • Change password
• Disable the Wiki account
  • Login to 'venues'

venues:~# cd /var/lib/moin/vislab-wiki/data/user
venues:user# grep <username> *
## Edit the file and set disabled=1

Other Notes

There is also the possibility of removing the mail-forward (in /etc/postfix/virtual). However this would break various links in the blogs and wiki. It would be possible to forward the addresses to another account but that would have privacy implications so it's been decided to leave the as-is for the time being.