Change ownership for deployed assets

[snafuxnj]

I re-opened a ticket for this request.

We don’t use juju and much of what we do is done through either maas-cli, maas UI, or gomaasAPI. A user, who was an admin, recently left our team/company. He has one asset he owns (switch) which is the main switch on the network maas runs. I fear that deleting the switch would require tearing the entire environment down, which is simply not an option. However, allowing this user’s login to maas to remain is a security nono. It would be amazing if a change-owner ability existed.

Is there a brute- or non-brute-force way to accomplish removing this user without being required to tear down our environment?

Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1284131

[bjornt]

Considering the user left the comment, it sound like you can do this with the CLI:

maas $profile user delete $old_user transfer_resources_to=$new_user

This will delete the user and transfer everything that he owns to someone else.

We don’t yet have the possibility to transfer resources without deleting the user, though.

[snafuxnj]

Worked like a champ! Thank you!