Deactivating multiple users at once about synadm

[JOJ0]

Hi, nice feature idea and probably particularly useful for admins fighting spammers. FWIW the user list command's filter option (-n) passes directly to the API and thus supports what's implemented there: https://github.com/JOJ0/synadm/blob/master/synadm/api.py#L345

Most (all?) Admin API's require to either pass an offset or a limit to select how many results to return. I was facing this problem recently when trying to implement a "show empty rooms" command nicely but felt that it's not "right" when pagination is not respected and just passing a very high limit number is the clumsy workaround: d9e4781

I don't have a solution for this first challenge so maybe we should just accept that features like this can't be implemented perfectly but are good enough to get the job done...?

To get a solution for now, have you tried an approach using the list command, jq and other commandline tools for mass deletions?

[Ascurius]

To get a solution for now, have you tried an approach using the list command, jq and other commandline tools for mass deletions?

I have not tested this appraoch yet, but I will do it in the near future and come back to report on viability of this appraoch.

[jlj77]

Cool, yeah, I'll try this approach shortly. I've retired a couple of bridges that've left my little homeserver with over 8000 defunct accounts. I'm sure I'll need to play nice with the rate limiting you mentioned, but yes, the example under Advanced Usage in your docs had me thinking about going down this route already. 👍

[JOJ0]

@jlj77 if it works for you please share here or to #synadm:peek-a-boo.at. I'd love to add it to the adv usage topic :-)