
Documentation for Crowd 1.2. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.
Deactivating a principal (i.e. a user) prevents them from logging in to any applications that use the Crowd framework. You would typically do this when a user leaves your organisation.
Deleting a principal removes them completely from the relevant directory.
Consider deactivating instead of deleting
We recommend that you deactivate a principal rather than delete them, in case some applications contain historical data, e.g. documents that the user has created. Read more.
To deactivate a principal,
To delete a principal,
The principal will be removed from the relevant directory and will no longer appear in the Principal Browser..