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[Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

We don't provide any web-api service for directly disabling a user, but you
can update the user with userCredentials.disabled = true, which will
disallow the user to login.

--
Morten


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Mahendra Kariya <
mahendra.kariya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks! We are running into foreign key issues when we are trying to
> delete a user. Could you please point us to the API with which we can
> disable the user?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> That code is located in AbstractCrudController
>>
>> --
>> Morten
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Mahendra Kariya <
>> mahendra.kariya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Morten,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the prompt reply.
>>> I don't see any code (in trunk) in UserController.java that supports the
>>> delete functionality. Could you please tell us when should we expect to
>>> have this in trunk?
>>>
>>> We will submit a patch for point 2 ASAP.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mahendra
>>> *Thought*Works
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>    1. Is there an any way to delete a user using the API?
>>>>>
>>>>> You should be able to delete a user by doing a DELETE request to
>>>> /api/users/UID in 2.15, be aware that there might be some foreign keys etc
>>>> getting in the way, so another solution might be to disable the user
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    1. We want "admin" user to update the details of other users using
>>>>>    the API. Currently it requires the password of the user which is getting
>>>>>    updated. Without the user's password, "admin" can't do an update. Is there
>>>>>    any other way to do it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently, no.. but it should be trivial to include a parameter,
>>>> "ignorePassword" or something like that.. that would simply continue using
>>>> the old password, feel free to provide a patch :-)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Morten
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    1.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If the community feels both these cases are general enough to be
>>>>> included in DHIS, we would like to submit patches in case this
>>>>> functionality is not available.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Mahendra
>>>>> *Thought*Works
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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