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

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OMG...all I can say is that is a serious, serious flaw. And so far, 
it's the only logical explanation.....

Well...we can salvage the site and fortunately the customer is being 
very understanding....but boy....it makes me not want to trust this 
RaQ control panel anymore...

Thanks very much, Diane and Gerald too!

Makiko

At 3:26 PM -0400 6/24/01, Diana Brake wrote:
> 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