board.net maintenance

deleting boards

As Pads are used anonymously we do not apply any roles, so we can not allow somebody to make deletions, else that would cause conflicts among users (think of pupils).

If you want to have a pad deleted please write a message to support@fairkom.eu

As a sysadmin we have some tools:

API call

We can delete a board by API call

   https://board.net/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret12345&padID=Myseminar-B3S

or preferred is directly on heu2 so that key is not exposed:

     curl "https://board.net/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret029b3f1&padID=Myseminar-B3S"

Since heu2 does not resolve his own dns use:

curl -k "https://127.0.0.1/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret029b3f1&padID=Myseminar-B3S"

or

curl -k "https://localhost/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret029b3f1&padID=Myseminar-B3S"

Admins: see https://etherpad.org/doc/latest/#index_http_api get how to secret logged in the server from cat /opt/etherpad-lite/APIKEY.txt or from keepass.

If we only know the read only link, we need to get the PadID first:

   "https://board.net/api/1.2.14/getPadID?apikey=apikey...&roID=r.dcaf13c86f0df1fbb3627394515087c3"

delete script

(not reliable working on our large instance)

su etherpad
cd /opt/etherpad-lite/src
node bin/checkPad.js test
node bin/deletePad.js test

adminpads2 plugin

This is too slow (so don't use - can cause etherpad to crash! use api calls instead) see https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2899#issuecomment-779611308

donation

If you requested a board for deletion, we welcome your donation to cover expenses to run the board.net service and for personal support: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=\_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5TQ33F5GUFLLE