Reused usernames and persistentIds

Rhys Smith Smith at cardiff.ac.uk
Thu Oct 23 11:32:01 EDT 2014


On 23 Oct 2014, at 14:42, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 10/23/14, 6:42 AM, "Ramon Pfeiffer" <ramon.pfeiffer at uni-tuebingen.de>
> wrote:
>> 
>> This page mentions the possibility to revoke a persistentId. How is it
>> done?
> 
> Delete it from the database, basically.

Thought you just inserted NOW() into the deactivationDate field? That way, it’ll generate a new one, but retain the old one for tracing back who an issued persistentId belonged to?

Rhys.
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