Any easy way to delete a user (having many to many relation with role) in acegi, grails?

Question

Hi,

In default acegi setting, person and authority have many to many relations. Thus, in addtion to people and authorities, there is a table authotiries-people.

To delete a person (a user) I have to delete the related record in authotiries-people first....then come back to delete the record...

the problem is: other people are still using this authority (ROLE)

could some one enlighten me how to delete the user without deleting the authority?

thanks.

Answer 1

You have to do something like this...

Authority.findAll().each { 
    it.removeFromPeople(person) 
}
person.delete()

The above removes the relationship between the person and authority first, then deletes the person. The authority itself is never deleted.