Revert the files of user access has been disabled

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rajeshkumar created the topic: revert the files of user access has been disabled
Long Back I had one questions to perforce support. Now it was in my archived email So sharing in forum, Hope this will help other members.

Problem Area:
There is one clientSpec called “ClientSpec1” and two user has opened a file in same clientspec “user1” and “user2”. Now we want to delete “user2” without deleted workspace. Also we can
not impersonate user2 login e.g p4 -p PORT -u user2 -c ClientSpec1 -H host1 revert //…
and then revert the files as user access has been disabled.

Please suggest what should be done in this case to revert the files and delete the users.

Solution:
There are a few ways in which you could do this.

Firstly, an admin should be able to log in as another user – so ‘p4 -u admin login user2’ would create the ticket without needing the password for ‘user2’.
Once logged in, you should be able to impersonate this user and run ‘p4 revert -k’ for the files in question.
This is covered in the following KB article.
kb.perforce.com/article/38/reverting-another-users-files

Alternatively, another user could take ownership of the files. Here’s an example:

Users ‘rajesh’ and ‘kumar’ have each opened a file in workspace ‘temporary’.
>p4 opened -a //depot/test…
//depot/test.js#3 – edit default change (xtext) by rajesh@temporary
//depot/test2.js#2 – edit default change (text) by kumar@temporary

I use the ‘reopen’ command to change the user:
>p4 -u adam -c temporary reopen //depot/test…
//depot/test.js#3 – reopened; user adam
//depot/test2.js#2 – reopened; user adam

As these changes are now ‘mine’, I can revert them (noting the ‘-k’ flag here):
>p4 -u adam -c temporary revert -k //depot/test…
//depot/test.js#3 – was edit, cleared
//depot/test2.js#2 – was edit, cleared
Regards,
Rajesh Kumar
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