Auto-remove accounts when SSO ID is not longer valid

[rlaliberty (Ryan)]

Our community relies on a user owning our software product in order to start posting on the site. When their account is deleted internally (say, they return the product or factory reset), we’d like to also nuke the Discourse account (without removing their posts). Is there a way to do that?

[Falco]

I recommend calling the API during user internal deletion and putting the user in the Suspended state.

Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions

Discourse has many built-in user statuses, roles, and permissions. These statuses and roles can be seen for a given user when viewing their profile from the users’ section of the admin dashboard: [admin-dashboard-user-permissions] The following describes the meaning of each status. Permission Status Activated Account has a verified email and is therefore active in the Discourse instance Account may login to Discourse, inactive accounts may not login Inactive accounts can only verify the…