[Bug]: After removing a user with occ, some of its related data remains in a few DB tables
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Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- Nextcloud Server is running on 64bit capable CPU, PHP and OS.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
Hello,
Using Nextcloud 26.0.2 (Yunohost package, but it seems not to be limited to that very package), when deleting a user using occ, I notice that if most of that user data is deleted as expected, some do remains (neither particularly heavy nor sensitve data, but still...) in the following tables
oc_addressbookchangesoc_jobs- this table seems related to logging, probably it is fine not to remove the deleted user's data from there?oc_storagesoc_mail_tags- reported at Nextcloud Mail app's forumoc_notifications_settings
Steps to reproduce
- Create a user
testuser - Associate an email account to it in Nextcloud Mail app (that may be an optional step)
- Delete the user using
occ user:delete testuser - Check mentioned MySQL table to see whether data related to
testuserstill remain in there.
Expected behavior
I guess all data related to the deleted user should be removed (or at least that there an option is provided to do so)
Installation method
None
Nextcloud Server version
26
Operating system
Debian/Ubuntu
PHP engine version
PHP 8.1
Web server
Nginx
Database engine version
MariaDB
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
None
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
{
"system": {
"passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"trusted_domains": [
"localhost",
"mydomain.tld"
],
"datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbtype": "mysql",
"version": "25.0.6.1",
"overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/mydomain.tld",
"dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbport": "",
"dbtableprefix": "oc_",
"mysql.utf8mb4": true,
"dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"installed": true,
"instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"ldapProviderFactory": "OCA\\User_LDAP\\LDAPProviderFactory",
"updatechecker": false,
"memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
"integrity.check.disabled": true,
"filelocking.enabled": true,
"memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
"redis": {
"host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"port": "5555",
"timeout": "0.0",
"password": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
},
"hashing_default_password": true,
"localstorage.allowsymlinks": true,
"simpleSignUpLink.shown": false,
"logout_url": "https:\/\/mydomain.tld\/yunohost\/sso\/?action=logout",
"maintenance": false,
"loglevel": 2
}
}
List of activated Apps
Enabled:
- calendar: 4.3.4
- circles: 25.0.0
- cloud_federation_api: 1.8.0
- comments: 1.15.0
- contactsinteraction: 1.6.0
- dashboard: 7.5.0
- dav: 1.24.0
- federatedfilesharing: 1.15.0
- federation: 1.15.0
- files: 1.20.1
- files_external: 1.17.0
- files_mindmap: 0.0.28
- files_pdfviewer: 2.6.0
- files_rightclick: 1.4.0
- files_sharing: 1.17.0
- files_trashbin: 1.15.0
- files_versions: 1.18.0
- firstrunwizard: 2.14.0
- forms: 3.3.0
- logreader: 2.10.0
- lookup_server_connector: 1.13.0
- mail: 2.2.6
- nextcloud_announcements: 1.14.0
- notifications: 2.13.1
- oauth2: 1.13.0
- password_policy: 1.15.0
- photos: 2.0.1
- polls: 5.0.5
- privacy: 1.9.0
- provisioning_api: 1.15.0
- ransomware_protection: 1.14.0
- recommendations: 1.4.0
- related_resources: 1.0.4
- serverinfo: 1.15.0
- settings: 1.7.0
- sharebymail: 1.15.0
- spreed: 15.0.6
- support: 1.8.0
- survey_client: 1.13.0
- systemtags: 1.15.0
- tasks: 0.15.0
- text: 3.6.0
- theming: 2.0.1
- twofactor_backupcodes: 1.14.0
- user_ldap: 1.15.0
- user_status: 1.5.0
- viewer: 1.9.0
- weather_status: 1.5.0
- workflowengine: 2.7.0
Disabled:
- accessibility
- activity: 2.15.0
- admin_audit
- bruteforcesettings
- deck: 1.8.5
- encryption
- files_videoplayer
- groupfolders: 13.1.3
- integration_whiteboard: 0.0.14
- richdocuments: 7.1.4
- shifts: 1.8.6
- suspicious_login
- talked: 0.5.0
- twofactor_totp
- updatenotification: 1.12.0
Nextcloud Signing status
No response
Nextcloud Logs
No response
Additional info
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the occ user:delete testuser entry point and trace the user-removal path for the listed tables: oc_addressbookchanges, oc_jobs, oc_storages, and oc_mail_tags. Reproduce the deletion with a test user, determine which remaining rows are expected, and verify that the agreed cleanup behavior is consistent across the tables.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- mariadb, php
- Domain
- backend, cli, database
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100