Finally delete several users

[Christoph]

Hello,

today, on my BigBlueButton server there were many registrations of users who are prohibited to get an account and even do not need one because they only want to be members of a conference, not owners. So, my question is if it is possible to reject the registrations of several users, and then finally delete their accounts, from the command line on the server instead of from the web front end. As from the web front end it is only possible to reject/delete one user at a time, rejecting/deleting many users takes a long time.

Regards

  Christoph

[Franz Dietrich]

You can create users from the command line
(https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/greenlight/gl-admin.html#creating-an-administrator-account)
but afaik not delete them other than modifying the database manually.

Am 21.04.20 um 13:26 schrieb Christoph:

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[Ahmad Farhat]

You can do it through the rails console:

To permanently delete all users that are currently pending (make sure you approve any registrations that you want to accept first)

docker exec -it greenlight-v2 bash

bundle exec rails c

User.with_role(:pending).each do |us|

us.destroy(true)

end

[Christoph]

Is there also a role for users who have been deleted, but not finally deleted?

[Ahmad Farhat]

User.deleted.each..... should work

[Christoph]

Just to be sure, will this delete all the user's data from disk, if there is anything to delete? Not only remove the user's name from the user database?

[Ahmad Farhat]

It'll delete the user, the users rooms and the recordings for those rooms

[Christoph]

Great, both finally deleting deleted users and finally deleting pending users worked successfully. Thank you very much.

Can I do the same with banned accounts? Surprisingly, though the web interface shows the role "Banned" for banned accounts, User.with_role(:banned) surprisingly does not work.

[Ahmad Farhat]

with_role(:denied) is the query you'll want to use