Deleting a User

Whether due to changes to your organization's security needs, changes to personnel, or other factors, existing user accounts can become obsolete. When this occurs, you will want to delete that user. A Laserfiche user can be deleted through the Laserfiche Administration Console. The deletion of a user requires the Manage Trustees privilege.

Warning: Be careful when deleting users. User deletion is a permanent action. Additionally, the deletion of a user can create a scenario where the full set of user accounts cannot be recreated. This occurs when a user has the Manage Trustees privilege, but not the Set Trustee Privileges privilege, and the user being deleted is the only user in the entire repository that has been granted the Set Trustee Privileges privilege.

Tip: If you want to remove a user's access without deleting the user, you can disable the user and remove their user license instead. The user will not be able to log in, but the account will remain in the repository, thus leaving information such as the sticky note history intact.

To delete a user

  1. Start the Laserfiche Administration Console.
  2. In the console tree, expand the desired Laserfiche Server item.
  3. Select the desired Laserfiche repository.
  4. If security has been enabled on that repository, log in as any user who has been granted the Manage Trustees privilege for the specified repository.
  5. Expand the Users and Groups node.
  6. Select the node.

  7. Select the user you wish to delete.
  8. From the Action menu, click Delete.
  9. Click Yes when prompted to confirm the action.