[p4] purging old users

[Pavloff, Alex (IE) @ SONOMAEO]

One thing I've noticed is that P4EXP keeps people logged in.  I've got
users with access times of today -- yet haven't actually done anything
in Perforce for months.  Some combination of 

Now, you work for Apple, so I'm not sure what your P4EXP usage is.  

I suppose a more reliable method be to explore all changelists that the
user has to see what the last modtime was.  This assumes though that all
users actually make changes -- I can imagine managers and QA people
never opening anything in changelists though.

	-Alex
 

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Karl Elvis
MacRae
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 5:26 PM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] purging old users


We've recently started to use passwords in perforce, and it's created a
new problem for us. 

We used to simply purge users we thought might be idle; users would then
re-create on next use. So we could blow away anyone with no reviews with
no penalty. 

Now tough, if we blow away a user, we blow away said user's password and
they can't get back in without re-entering a password. 

So I need a better way to see who my idle users are. I'm trying to think
of a good way to get p4 to tell me who hasn't touched p4 in N days (or
some such thing) so I can use that as a basis for who might be idle.
It's easy to find user who no longer works here, but what about the
users who, say, ran p4 on one project but are done and don't touch it
anymore?

Anyone have any clever tricks for finding old, idle users? 

Thanks-


--Karl

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Karl Elvis MacRae               DCM         Apple Computer 
kmac at apple.com    408-974-0847 (office) 408-313-5741 (mobile)
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
                                                         --V
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