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Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/handlers/profile.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/handlers/profile.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/profile.py b/synapse/handlers/profile.py index 58e9181f01..0a952dab97 100644 --- a/synapse/handlers/profile.py +++ b/synapse/handlers/profile.py @@ -274,9 +274,9 @@ class BaseProfileHandler(BaseHandler): """ Sets the 'active' flag on a user profile. If set to false, the user account is considered deactivated or hidden. - If 'hide' is true, then we just try hide the user rather than deactivate it. - This means withholding it from replication (and mark it as inactive) rather than - clearing the profile from the HS DB. + If 'hide' is true, then we interpret active=False as a request to try to hide the + user rather than deactivating it. This means withholding the profile from replication + (and mark it as inactive) rather than clearing the profile from the HS DB. Note that unlike set_displayname and set_avatar_url, this does *not* perform authorization checks! This is because the only place it's used currently is in account deactivation where we've already done these checks anyway. |