That's strage. It should work irrespective of email unless email is used as username/userId.
This both requests worked fine for a test i did:
curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzYxYmIwMmM3Y2I3NzQxOTM2MWM1YzY3ZWViY2RmODdiMDcyMDVmMjU=" http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/people/test2
curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzYxYmIwMmM3Y2I3NzQxOTM2MWM1YzY3ZWViY2RmODdiMDcyMDVmMjU=" http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/people/test@alfresco.com
Are you getting the error for specific user or all users? Can you try any other users? Try creating a test user and see what you get ? Are these users synced from ldap/ad?
If you are getting the error with default api, likely you would get same with any custom webscript as well.
You can learn writing webscript from here: http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html
Here is an example if this helps:
public class DeleteUserWebscript extends AbstractWebScript {
private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DeleteUserWebscript.class);
private final PersonService personService;
public DeleteUserWebscript(final ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry) {
super();
this.personService = serviceRegistry.getPersonService();
}
@Override
public void execute(final WebScriptRequest req, final WebScriptResponse res) throws IOException {
final String userName = req.getParameter("username");
LOGGER.info("Deleting user: {}", userName);
try {
if (personService.personExists(userName)) {
personService.deletePerson(userName);
res.getWriter().write(String.format("User %s has been deleted successfully!", userName));
} else {
final String errorMsg = String.format("User %s can not be found, unable to delete the user!", userName);
LOGGER.info(errorMsg);
res.getWriter().write(errorMsg);
res.setStatus(404);
}
} catch (AuthenticationException authex) {
LOGGER.error("Failed to authenticate user", authex);
res.getWriter().write(String.format("Failed to delete the user %s due to: %s. Please contact administrator!", userName, authex.getMessage()));
res.setStatus(401);
} catch (AlfrescoRuntimeException excp) {
LOGGER.error("Error while deleting the user", excp);
res.getWriter().write(String.format("Failed to delete the user %s due to: %s. Please contact administrator!", userName, excp.getMessage()));
res.setStatus(500);
}
}
}
<webscript>
<shortname>Delete User</shortname>
<description></description>
<url>/support-admin/delete-user?username={username}</url>
<authentication>admin</authentication>
<family>ADMIN_UTILS</family>
</webscript>
<bean id="webscript.com.demo.admin.delete-user.delete"
class="com.demo.admin.webscript.DeleteUserWebscript"
parent="webscript">
<constructor-arg ref="ServiceRegistry"/>
</bean>
~Abhinav
(ACSCE, AWS SAA, Azure Admin)
