Lazlo Westerhof

This is a known issue in iRODS: https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/4697 It is already fixed, but the fix will be released with v4.3.0.

FYI the default metadata schema includes a remarks field which is used for remarks from the datamanager. 

Implemented in https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/yoda-ruleset/pull/502

> Perhaps partially related. If in iCommands we do `iadmin lu | grep john` we get users that are known to the system but are not present anymore to any...

Not yet, for the initial issue we are still designing a solution. With the expanded permission model of iRODS 4.3 we think we can find a solution.

We have created a script to list all users that are not a member of any existing groups: https://utrechtuniversity.github.io/yoda/administration/deprovision-users.html I think it is possible to use this if you have...

You can find it here: https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/yoda-ruleset/blob/development/tools/deprovision-users.r It is not deployed by default on v1.8.x (but should work), but it will be on v1.9.

This looks like an iRODS bug: https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/4887#issuecomment-769085378 Resolved in v4.2.9 and later.

Some edge cases still exist in v4.2.11 / v4.2.12. (https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/5727) Probably fixed in v4.3.1.

Unfortunatly not, we are investigating possible workarounds, but for the proper fix we need iRODS 4.3.x with the new GenQuery parser implementation. That will probably land in Yoda 2.0.