Delete user, must be able to delete users to stasify account security requirements. How to delete user?
From reading this forum and other responses it appears that there is no ability to delete a users account.
We are required to delete user accounts. We also have no guarantee that user ids will not be reused by corporate IT. This could become an export compliance issue when the second possessor of the id is not a citizen and the prior possessor was. For this reason it is very important to have the ability to delete accounts.
We are required to delete user accounts. We also have no guarantee that user ids will not be reused by corporate IT. This could become an export compliance issue when the second possessor of the id is not a citizen and the prior possessor was. For this reason it is very important to have the ability to delete accounts.
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Loren,
I know that it is possible to delete users using the java API.
However, I would not recommend to do so. If IT wants to reuse IDs, I would rather suggest to archive the users and to change the ID to something never to be used in the ldap system. E.g OriginalID_archived. This would keep the data audit compliant too. If the user is deleted, all artifacts referring to him would have an unresolvable reference. This is why I would discourage to do that.
See https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/changing-the-jazz-user-id-using-the-rtc-plain-java-client-libraries/ on how to change the ID. The automation example would also allow to archive the user (and delete it).
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Ralph,
Thank you for the response and the link. I have experimented with the procedure described in the technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470141 It does look like the procedure will work.
Loren