Follow-up to admin API to re-activate accounts

[clokep]

A follow-up to #7847 (which fixed #7220) to fix a couple of bugs, now the re-activated user is:

• Re-added to the user directory.
• Removed from the erased_users table.

[clokep]

CC @dklimpel -- hopefully this meets all your feedback!

[dklimpel]

CC @dklimpel -- hopefully this meets all your feedback!

Yes, it does.

[anoadragon453]

lgtm otherwise!

[JOJ0]

Hi, sorry to hijack this thread. How would I use this feature to re-activate an account? What is the API endpoint to send the request to? It's pretty urgent as I accidentally deactivated my main-account on my homeserver while playing around with my API shellscripts. I still have another admin account to send to the API.

I tried curls against endpoint addresses like this but no luck so far. Couldn't find it in the code either....didn't search extensively though....

https://my-hs.fqdn/_matrix/client/r0/admin/activate/%40${USER}%3Amy-hs.fqdn?access_token=${TOKEN}"

[clokep]

Please ask support questions in #synapse:matrix.org, but you might want to check the docs first: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst#create-or-modify-account

[localguru]

@clokep @anoadragon453 Hi, I reactivated a User using

curl --header "Authorization: Bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}" -XPUT -d \
    '{"deactivated": false, "password": "test"}' \
    http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v2/users/${MATRIX_ID}

but the user is still in erased_table. After an hour the entry was gone. Didn't restart the server.

[mloskot]

@clokep

Please ask support questions in #synapse:matrix.org, but you might want to check the docs first: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst#create-or-modify-account

FYI, and @JOJ0 too , this is not possible. I've issued request to the support team and here is what I have received:

Hi Mateusz

Unfortunately it is impossible to verify the identity of deleted users. Per the matrix.org Privacy Notice ( https://matrix.org/legal/privacy-notice#2211-account-and-profile-information ): "Your username is stored indefinitely to avoid account recycling."

To protect the security and privacy of our users we never reactivate or release deleted usernames.
We recommend you create a new account using a different Matrix ID.

Best wishes
Matrix.org Support

Bummer!