How to Delete Your User

Some tasks require a developer to delete their user.

Use Cases

• Test Onboarding as a user.

Steps

0. Completely shut down all of your containers and restart them.

1. Login to docker shell:

   docker exec -it core_portal_django /bin/bash
   

2. Enter python shell:

   python manage.py shell
   

3. Find & Delete your user:

   from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
   from portal.apps.onboarding.models import SetupEvent
   # Get your user model (change "my_username" to your username)
   my_user = get_user_model().objects.get(username="my_username")
   # Inspect your user setup events, if things go wrong and we need additional debugging data
   events = SetupEvent.objects.all().filter(user=my_user)
   print(events)
   # Delete your local user to reset your onboarding state
   my_user.delete()
   

Notes

If you are superuser, you can delete a user from the web interface. However, to become superuser you had to get into the shell anyway to perform steps from How to Set Your User to Staff.

Reference

• Source: Confluence "Testing task/FP-702" (and a Slack reference)