Removing inactive users from license?

[Twolewis]

Hi,

I'm trying out PlasticSCM Team/Enterprise and got a 30day 5 user license on the server.  When I imported a repo from github, all my seats were taken up by users from the github repo.  Running "cm licenseinfo" yields something like this:

      Plastic SCM license information:

      * User-license information:

aaa                     ACTIVE
bbb                     ACTIVE
ccc                     ACTIVE
ddd                     ACTIVE
eee                     ACTIVE
fff                     ACTIVE
ddd                     ACTIVE
eee                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
ggg                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
hhh                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
iii                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
....
...
..

I've had to manually go into deactivate the users I don't care about, and activate those I do.  But now I have a bunch of users in licenseinfo that I just want to get rid of wholesale to make user license management a little easier.  So, how do I do that?

In a more explicit example, after activating the users I care about, and deactivating those I do not, I end up with something like this:

      Plastic SCM license information:

      * User-license information:

aaa                     ACTIVE
bbb                     ACTIVE
ccc                     ACTIVE
ddd                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
eee                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
fff                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
ddd                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
eee                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
ggg                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
hhh                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
iii                     INACTIVE (Not licensed)
....
...
..

I wish to keep users "aaa", "bbb", and "ccc", obliterate the rest, so that when I run "cm licenseinfo" I am left with:

Plastic SCM license information:

      * User-license information:

aaa                     ACTIVE
bbb                     ACTIVE
ccc                     ACTIVE

---------------------------------------
Licensed to: Plastic SCM extended trial license - My Name
Expiration date: 2/19/2017 4:57:15 PM
Edition: enterprise
Total licensed users: 5
Total activated users: 3
Total available users: 2
---------------------------------------

How do I do that?

Thanks!

[manu]

Hello,

unfortunately it's not possible to do what you want.

We keep a list of all the users that are part of the repository history, that is users with branches, changesets etc created by them, owners of Plastic SCM objects.

This is useful for organizations where after an initial replication the developers start working immediately, saving enable-user requests time for the VCS admin.

[GinoSL]

This seems to introduce an issue in my case.

During some license cleanup, I noticed that one user was added twice, with different capitalization:

FLastname@email.com

flastname@email.com

I've attempted to deactivate one, of each those instances, leaving the other as active.

This user does not have access to the server unless licenses are active for both emails above. As far as I can tell this may be because it checks the inactive user list (case insensitive) before it checks the active user list. I don't know for sure, but it's my best guess.

 

[GinoSL]

I've also run into an issue where a user had 2 identical entries, I cannot remove either one, so each one is up a license.

[GinoSL]

Update:

My issue has been resolved by using the --nosolveuser flag when deactivating a user:

cm du USERNAME --nosolveuser

 

 

[calbzam]

Thanks for the update and sorry for the inconveniences!