# Re-purposing a Discourse installation for a yearly event

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-purposing-a-discourse-installation-for-a-yearly-event/34670
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 19, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-purposing-a-discourse-installation-for-a-yearly-event/34670 "2015-10-19T14:12:43Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-purposing-a-discourse-installation-for-a-yearly-event/34670/7 "2016-02-03T15:46:56Z")

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On a SSO-enabled site, if I [log out](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-programmatically-log-out-lots-of-users/37611/15) a user, prevent him from signing in again via SSO, and deactivate his account, is there any way for him to interact with Discourse anymore? He [should not be ably to reply by mail](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inactive-users-can-reply-by-email/36544), should not get any new mails and be unable to re-validate his address because he cannot login, right?

I am trying to kick out users that took a course last year, while ensuring that they can login again if they sign up for a new course (which grants them SSO login once again).

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