fedora-infrastructure

#11254 Delete 'dcantrel' Fedora account
Closed: Fixed by ryanlerch. Opened by dcantrell.

Closed: Fixed
Reopen Issue

Some years ago at Red Hat we started allowing people to have usernames longer than eight characters. I was on the list of people that got a corrected username internally having long suffered as "dcantrel". I made peace with that a long time ago and to make my life easier made all of my local accounts and my FAS account align as 'dcantrel'. Once RH fixed things, I made changes locally and in Fedora again to switch to 'dcantrell'.

Fedora was a bit more tricky and what we did was create a new 'dcantrell' account so we could figure out if anything was still incorrectly tied to 'dcantrel'. Enough time has passed now and I think we can safely remove 'dcantrel' (one "L" on the end).

I bring this up because someone added me as a co-maintainer on a package today and selected 'dcantrel' so it's at least still in that database and should not be. Regarding packages, anything that still has 'dcantrel' as a maintainer or contributor should change over to 'dcantrell' and then I would like the 'dcantrel' account removed to avoid future confusion for people. I'm not sure if there's an easy way I can query that or to make a change, but hope someone can help me.

Thanks!

So, pagure/src groups are refreshed on login and it will offer to allow anyone in the packager group to co-maintain...

So, I went into the database and removed dcantrel from 'packager' there. I also disabled the account.

It should no longer show up, but... somehow it still does. ;(

@pingou any ideas?

Metadata Update from @phsmoura:
- Issue priority set to: Waiting on Assignee (was: Needs Review)
- Issue tagged with: low-gain, low-trouble, ops

Had a little dig into this one, and i think I know what is going on:

  1. dcantrel can no longer be added as a co-maintainer as that user is no longer in the packaging group.
  2. dcantrel still shows up in the UI dropdown suggestions when trying to add a co-maintainer as the dcantrel user still exists in src.fp.o pagure. (i.e. the suggestions just list all the users in pagure). you can try to add dcantrel as a admin, it just doesnt work.
  3. dcantrel can (despite being disabled in accounts.fp.o) still be added as a ticket priv for repos.

I don't think blocking dcantrel on the src.fo.o pagure would stop it from showing in the suggestions -- tested this on pagure.io with one of the recently blocked users on there, and they still showed up in the dropdown.
Edited by ryanlerch

@pingou any ideas?

Renaming dcantrel to old-dcantrel in the DB?

But yeah, it won't be removed from the drop-down, removing it from the packager
group should prevent it being added to project, which is already something

ok. @dcantrell is that sufficient ?

And it would be good for someone who is a packager, but not a pagure admin to try and add dcantel to a package and confirm it doesn't work. ;)

Going to close this one as fixed here. the dcantrel user cannot be added as a co-maintainer to packages any more.

@dcantrell feel free to re-open if you want / need anymore done on the infra side.

Metadata Update from @ryanlerch:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

Thanks, everyone. I was on PTO on Thursday and Friday so just getting to this now. The solution described is sufficient for me. Thanks again!
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