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Enabling account deletion on nats server

I was trying to prune some users from my nats server by doing:

nsc push --system-account SYS -u nats://localhost:4222 -P

but I got the following error:

server nats-comm-2 responded with error: delete accounts request by SOME_KEY_VALUE failed - delete must be enabled in server config

The meaning of the error is pretty obvious, when I examine the help documentation for nsc push -P:

Only works with nats-resolver enabled nats-server. Mutually exclusive of account-removal/diff

But I'm not sure how to enable this in my nats server config. How do I allow for account pruning?

Solution

  • I found documentation in the resolver section, here, showing that I could add allow_delete: true to the config, but as the YAML format is in camel-case, I had to modify it to be allowDelete: true instead.

    nats:
  auth:
    enabled: true
    resolver:
      type: full
      allowDelete: true