UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback Deleted User's Usernames Forever Retired?

v6.2.1

Is there an admin override to allow me to free up the username of a deleted user? I'm assuming it's a "feature" that deleted usernames don't become available.


thanks, JIM

There's no check for this. I just tried. You can delete a username and reregister it.

The only thing that might be confusing you.... if you turned email verification on, then the new username won't show up under admin (and you can't reregister or login) until you click the link to activate the account.

You can do a manual query to see what you have in the database:

SELECT U_Approved
FROM w3t_Users
WHERE U_Username = 'xxxxx'

That'll tell you the user's status. And if you need to, you can delete:

DELETE FROM w3t_Users
WHERE U_Username = 'xxxxx'


But you should be able to reregister a deleted user, as long as it's not banned or on the "bad names" list.

thanks for your reply, Josh. Ok, then the problem must lie in our cybercommerce add-on script. I'll go try to debug that.