Deleting a user from the Documentum repository
- Deleting a user from the repository is highly not recommended
- Prior to deleting an user from the repository, the ownership of all the objects owned by the user needs to be changed
- When a user is deleted from the repository, his memberships in groups and permission sets are not effected. The memberships need to be altered by using DQL and API
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October 1st, 2007 at 3:29 pm
This makes it sound difficult or dangerous. Some points to remember:
1) When a user is removed from your LDAP source, the user is marked inactive. Plus, without having a valid LDAP account, they couldn’t connect anyway.
2) To reassign objects from one user, to another, there is a “Reassign User” tool in the Documentum Administrator. This will reassign everything from the old user to the new.
3) The main reason to not “delete” a user is that you lose auditting details from the past. Reassigning their content and marking them inactive locks them out without losing any history.
-Pie