Re: Do we have any policy for disabling inactive users

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Mattia Verga via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Just being paranoid here: do we have any policy / automatism for
> disabling "power" users (in packager group or like) which have been
> inactive for long time?
>
> I'm no security expert, but an inactive user account may be hacked
> without noticing and if such account have powers like being in the
> packager group may inject bad things in the distribution.
> I also imagine the case where a user no more use their email address and
> that become available to someone else. The new user may easily reset the
> password and gain access to the old Fedora account (provided that the
> old user didn't use 2fa).
>
> Does it make sense to start thinking to prune inactive packagers without
> waiting someone to start the "unresponsive maintainer policy"? Maybe a
> script could check user activities in src.fedoraproject.org and send a
> warning email if no activity is made in one year?

Sounds like a good idea to me and waiting for a year of inactivity is
imho a reasonable amount of time, if we give them enough time to respond
*and* also provide a way to reactivate a deactivated account.


Cheers,

Dan
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