The discussion revolves around preventing the deletion of abandoned, unactivated accounts in a Discourse SSO setup. kgoetz seeks a way to stop the system from deleting SSO users regardless of their post count, while still allowing spam accounts to be removed. vinothkannans suggests hiding the delete button via HTML customization, but kgoetz notes this may not address the system-level issue. fefrei recommends setting the purge unactivated users grace period days to 0 to prevent automatic deletion of unactivated accounts. fefrei clarifies that this setting only affects unactivated accounts, not spam, as spam accounts are handled separately.
Hi,
I’m looking to disable a number of SSO users.
The topic below confirms only those with no posts will be deleted (good), but I’m hoping to prevent all users created/synced via sso from being deleted in discourse no matter what their post count.
I do want discourse to keep deleting spam/invalid accounts.
Is such a thing possible?
You can hide delete button for all users using HTML customization.
Set the site setting purge unactivated users grace period days to 0 to never purge unactivated users automatically 
Hi Vinoth!,
Thanks for the suggestion. In my case its the Discourse system user that I need to modify the behaviour of so I suspect I’ll need something lower level.
My understanding is that setting will stop Discourse (system user) from deleting spam accounts - is that the case?
thanks again to both of you,
This is only about users that registered but never activated their account by clicking the link in the email they got – it has nothing to do with spam per se