Hello Eric Thanks for the fulsome reply - that looks awesome! Looks like an upgrade to 18.05 is needed for our servers. Thanks for your efforts on this, Best wishes Peter -- Peter Briggs peter.briggs(a)manchester.ac.uk Bioinformatics Core Facility University of Manchester B.1083 Michael Smith Bldg Tel: (0161) 2751482 ________________________________________ From: hxr(a)hx42.org [hxr(a)hx42.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 10:20 AM To: Peter Briggs Cc: galaxy-dev(a)lists.galaxyproject.org Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Permanently deleting users from a Galaxy instance Hi Peter, On 2018-06-11, Peter Briggs wrote: I implemented the `beta_gdpr_mode` in Galaxy 18.05. Please find the pull request here: https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/pull/6069 In case you are interested how this functionality was implemented And it is documented in the release notes here: https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/release_18.05/releases/18.05_announce.h... And in the admin documentation here: https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/admin/special_topics/gdpr_compli... (but that documentation needs to be updated.) I believe it's the same distinction made with histories - deleted = "cleanup in some time" - purged = "fine to cleanup now" Yes, our current opinion is that only the email address + username + any addresses on file must be wiped. This feature is available to you when you turn on this mode.