Closing Accounts

MembershipReboot allows accounts to be closed or deleted. This function is provided with the DeleteAccount API on the UserAccountService class.

MembershipReboot has a flexible approach to accounts being closed. Accounts can either be marked as closed and thus a new account with the same username can not be created, or accounts can be completely deleted from the database. It is up to the application which approach is preferred.

If you do not want to allow an account to be deleted, then configure the boolean flag via the SecuritySettings.AllowAccountDeletion property, or in the config file:

<membershipReboot allowAccountDeletion="false" />

The default is true.