Re: [cobalt-users] Deleting a user deleted the site!!!

[Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:09 PM 6/24/01, you wrote:
> "support" <mi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> >
> > The httpd.conf and records are fine...the link entry is there... the
> > /users , /logs and /certs directories are all there... but the
> > /home/sites/siteX/web directory is missing :(
> >
> WOW!
> I sure hope you have a backup!
> I really don't know how you can recover!
> Perhaps someone has the answer?
>
> If you have a backup you could try to restore the /web directory.
> Maybe "touch /home/sites/siteX/web" to create a directory
> and then create the link, and finally restoring the /web directory.
> Gerald
>
> P.S. Are the other users /web directories there?
> ls /home/sites/siteX/users/other-users

Hi,

I can't help with getting the site info/folders back, but maybe I can point 
to a reason this happened in the first place.

I have a RaQ2 so YMMV.
When you delete a user from a site and that user is a siteadmin, all his 
files go with him. I found this to happen even if there were other users 
associated with the site. I found this out by design one day when going 
about deleting a whole site. I wanted to know what would happen if a user 
was siteadmin and he was deleted. Sure enough...all files and folders went 
away when deleting that user only.  No harm here but I learned a valuable 
lesson. If a user is to be deleted, make sure to remove his siteadmin 
designation FIRST. I haven't had to worry about this much, but as a 
precaution I make it a point to SSH in and chown the web files to a user 
that isn't being deleted....either myself or some other siteadmin for that 
site.

Sorry not to be able to help,
Diana


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