Mark, You could try using the following extensions:
List Deleted Content Author Users http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/List+Deleted+Content+Au thor+Users Change Content Author http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Change+Content+Author They have helped me in the past to clean up deleted users. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Mortagne Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 10:28 AM To: XWiki Users <users@xwiki.org> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Deleting admin user blocks execution of some pages On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Mark Sack <mark.s...@secti.al.gov.br> wrote: > Due to another issue, I had to recreate some users (including the one > I had been using as the administrator). Instead of just hiding the old > users, I decided to delete them. It was a mistake to delete the old > admin user because, now, scripts that were last modified by that user > will not execute (even by the new admin user). The new admin user > needs make some new modification to the script in order to execute it. > > Is there a mechanism by which I could get a list of all the scripts > that were last modified by that old user so that I could go in and > clean up this problem at one go instead of one by one as I stumble > onto those pages? Is there another workaround a person can use when > they shoot themselves in the foot like this? > > Note that I tried restoring the old admin user from the deleted documents. > He then appears in the user directory as expected. But the scripts > will still not execute. So it appears that restoring a user has the > effect of creating a new user with the same attributes as the old one > instead of actually recreating the old user. Could this be considered > an issue (defect or improvement) worthy of recording in JIRA? Its not exactly that. It does recreate your user exactly as it was. But restoring a the user does not automatically add it in groups since this information is not stored in the user profile. > > Mark > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Deleting-admin-user-blocks-execution > -of-some-pages-tp7598812.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list > archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users