Hi, I have a bot user that does a bunch of tasks via the api, it is a trusted user and an admin user, and it has been deactivated twice this week for some reason. I cannot see anything in the staff action logs, or the error logs that hints as to why the user was deactivated. Can you help me, eithe…

I would recommend updating, but if you can’t then you have a couple of options: ‘Impersonate’ the account, so it won’t be deactivated for another year Set invalidate_inactive_admin_email_after_days to a higher number, or 0 to disable

I think it may have been the InvalidateInactiveAdmins script, looks like that will not generate a log entry. Can anyone confirm since i’m not famliar with the details of the source.

Yes that’s correct. We should certainly look at adding a log for that - it can be very confusing if you are not aware of the feature. I will add it to my todo list. If you’re running the latest version of Discourse, then we have recently added some extra checks before deactivating admin accounts: h…

Yes, i saw that, i am on an earlier version unfortunatley.

We did the second one, waiting a few days to see if it happens again and root cause was wrong

We got into a lot of issue last time we updated with how flagging works, so we will not take updates unless we have no other option

I hope you like security vulnerabilities, then :rofl:

I realize there are issues with not taking updates, our use of discourse is not standard and the acual discorse server is not accessed by the users only used as a backend, so I think we are good for now. That our users are mad because behavior has changed and we cannot undo the change since the tea…

[image] david: We should certainly look at adding a log for that - it can be very confusing if you are not aware of the feature. Done per FEATURE: Add message to log when admins are automatically deactivated · discourse/discourse@a9d0d55 · GitHub [Screenshot 2020-01-28 at 12.13.08]

User get deactivated, need to know why

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) December 13, 2019, 3:10am 9

I hope you like security vulnerabilities, then

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User get deactivated, need to know why

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