Deleting an account should be possible #71361

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Sybren A. Stüvel · 2019-11-05T14:21:51+01:00

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2019-11-05 14:21:51 +01:00

Currently it's not possible to delete someone's account on Blender Cloud without hacking the database directly. For obvious reasons this is not a good approach.

Account deletion could be implemented in a few incremental steps:

Allow an admin to anonymise a user document. This would remove the email address, change the name and other identifying information to '[account deleted]', set some flag to indicate deletedness (probably {'_deleted': true}, and remove authentication information. By anonymising the user document (and not deleting it) we don't have to worry about other parts of Blender Cloud crashing because it receives None instead of a user. Note that this change should also trigger a re-index of the user in ElasticSearch.
Create a periodical cleanup task to handle orphaned data.
- Delete files and nodes owned by deleted users or reassign them to still-existing project members.
- Delete projects owned by deleted users, or reassign them to still-existing project members.
- Same for Flamenco Managers, jobs, tasks, etc.
Allow a user to request the above to happen.
Listen to deletion requests from Blender ID.

Currently it's not possible to delete someone's account on Blender Cloud without hacking the database directly. For obvious reasons this is not a good approach. Account deletion could be implemented in a few incremental steps: - Allow an admin to anonymise a user document. This would remove the email address, change the name and other identifying information to '[account deleted]', set some flag to indicate deletedness (probably `{'_deleted': true}`, and remove authentication information. By anonymising the user document (and not deleting it) we don't have to worry about other parts of Blender Cloud crashing because it receives `None` instead of a user. Note that this change should also trigger a re-index of the user in ElasticSearch. - Create a periodical cleanup task to handle orphaned data. - Delete files and nodes owned by deleted users or reassign them to still-existing project members. - Delete projects owned by deleted users, or reassign them to still-existing project members. - Same for Flamenco Managers, jobs, tasks, etc. - Allow a user to request the above to happen. - Listen to deletion requests from Blender ID.

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2019-11-05 14:21:51 +01:00

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Deleting an account should be possible #71361