We have had a rash of spam postings and I looked into the database to see if I could find information about the users.
Can I delete all the undesired users or is there a way to do this with some mysql command/script? Are there related tables I need to update as well?
Instead of doing it from mysql I did it from the django admin page:
YourSiteUrl/admin
and
.../admin/auth/user/
however, I don't believe this is recommended by the implementors of the software - it is recommended to block them, however this is a tedious task if there are more than a few (and when the spammers sign up it usually means trouble...)
This is ok, but the side effect will be a deletion of all user's content. Better might be changing status of the user account to blocked or merging it to some other account by the command `merge_users`.
thanks. we actually want to delete all the users content in these instances - these were spam accounts.
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