Why are the password and custom fields of the anonymized user not deleted/anonymized?

Hello sebix, I anonymized a user on my test instance. It removed the custom field value, and the password hash was changed, meaning it doesn’t match the previous password.

[图片] Coin-coin le Canapin: I anonymized a user on my test instance. It removed the custom field value, and the password hash was changed, meaning it doesn’t match the previous password. This is interesting. I anonymized 1772 users, all of whom kept their import_pass custom fields. Also impor…

[图片] sebix: I anonymized 1772 users, all of whom kept their import_pass custom fields. Also import_id, but I care less about them. Thanks for adding these details :slight_smile: These fields come from Migrated password hashes support . So it’s not directly related to Discourse. The plugin ca…

[图片] Coin-coin le Canapin: These fields come from Migrated password hashes support . Actually, that plugin reads this custom field. It’s added by most import scripts. [图片] Coin-coin le Canapin: I don’t know if uninstalling the plugin keeps these fields or not. My guess is it shouldn’t kee…

It happened to me that some user wanted out, and they asked to be anonymized. But then they wanted to come back. Having the password field unchanged allowed us to reactivate this account, since we knew who it was.

匿名化账户后，密码和自定义用户字段是否还保留？

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) 2023 年6 月 26 日 15:02 2

您好 sebix，

我在测试实例上匿名化了一个用户。它删除了自定义字段值，并且密码哈希已更改，这意味着它与之前的密码不匹配。

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匿名化账户后，密码和自定义用户字段是否还保留？

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