A site with no site-manager in Alfresco Share

This is one issue that I came across while working in alfresco v 4.x. Create a site with any user other than 'admin'. Lets say we have created a site "xyz" from user "abc". Any user who creates a site becomes the site-manager of that site. This way, "abc" becomes the site-manager of the site "xyz".

Now, lets suppose another user say "admin" joins the site "xyz". By default admin will have "consumer" role in the site "xyz". Since admin has the power to delete the user profile of any user, lets say admin deletes the user profile "abc". Now since "abc" was the site-manger of the site "xyz" and no other user was the site-manger of that site, nothing can be done with that site now. It cannot be modified, deleted or updated. Other users can only join that site but they will have "consumer" role by default as the roles can only be changed by a site-manager.

Since now there is no site-manger in that site, roles of the users who are joining the site cannot be changed. This site now cannot be deleted, not even by admin.

Users who are the only site-mangers of some site, admin should not be able to delete such users stating that the user should make some other user as site-manger before their profile gets deleted.