Delete a user who is an owner and edited a space.

[Alex Battard]

I need to delete employees as they wont have access and so that their name is out of the system.  I can disable a user, but i cant delete them since they added pages and spaces.  How can i accomplish this?

[Elisa _Atlassian_]

Hi Alex,

If this user has edited any content on the system, you won't be able to delete him/her. But only deactivate.

If this user has only created content, then you can associate all content created to another user and then delete him/her.

Please let us know if this helps you.

Cheers!

[Felix Grund (Scandio)]

We've done this several times when we wanted to assign content to another LDAP user. This is our process:

• Backup the database
• Create a temporary user in Confluence (tmp_user)
• Assign all content created by the user to delete (del_user) to tmp_user

update content set creator = 'tmp_user' where creator = 'del_user';
update content set lastmodifier = 'tmp_user' where lastmodifier = 'del_user';

• Delete del_user in Confluence
• Synchronize the target LDAP (ldap_user) user with Confluence
• Revert the changes above

update content set creator = 'ldap_user' where creator = 'tmp_user';
update content set lastmodifier = 'ldap_user' where lastmodifier = 'tmp_user';

• remove the tmp_user from Confluence