Cancel account request - account name "wsl"

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Feb 15 15:41:53 UTC 2010



On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Paul Frields wrote:
>
>> Actually, as required by the Fedora Project's privacy policy[1], we
>> can remove accounts in the Fedora Account System.  We probably need a
>> SOP on the wiki for this, since I couldn't find information on how
>> exactly this is done and whom should be contacted in the FAS page[2].
>> I'm cc'ing the infrastructure list to see if I missed this somewhere.
>>
>> * * *
>> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/PrivacyPolicy#How_to_Access.2C_Modify_or_Update_Your_Information
>> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem#Account_Termination
>>
>
> We've never deleted an account before and shouldn't do it for various
> security reasons.  I don't see anything in the privacy policy that
> conflicts with that.  In particular the two pieces that, once created must
> never change, are the username and UID.   Neither of which are considered
> personal by the privacy policy.
>
> What users can do is remove all other info in their account and set it to
> inactive.

Something to consider as a FAS feature is to have 
reserved/protected/expired userids - so we can terminate users but make 
sure their uid/username is never reused.

-sv




More information about the websites mailing list