Thats something I havent thought of also :) Yet you should wait until the vdeloldusers program is run after you set your account to be deleted.
I think the best way is to run it from php by utilizing an external program/script which has setuid. Which double checks the username/password to be sure that the person who runs the script is the actual user. Evren On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Shane Chrisp wrote: > Now that's actually an idea I hadnt thought of. You could change the last > auth field for the user to some value like 12 months ago in the databasr > and then cron the vdeloldusers to delet anyone older than that value. > This wouldn't require any special permissions/perl scripts, just a crontab > entry. > > Shane > > > >Well, if you are using mysql, why dont you use the veloldusers program > >periodicly to delete unused accounts? you can perhaps delete > >accounts not > >logged in for 3 months. Like hotmail does. > > > >I think its a really bad idea to think that user will delete his email > >when he doesnt use it :) Well I dont think anybody would go > >through this. > >Why would somebody delete their own account anyhow? even if > >they are not > >going to use it anymore. > > > > > > >
