September 23, 2024
Inactive secondary users to be removed from Seller Central accounts
To better protect your Seller Central account and keep your data secure, each quarter we’ll remove secondary users on your account who are inactive for more than 12 months.
This change offers you the following:
- Increased security: The removal of inactive users reduces potential access risks by bad actors and improves account safety.
- Simplified access management: Helps you manage permissions more efficiently and helps prevent any unauthorized access.
If needed, you can go to Set and edit user permissions to add removed users if they still need access to your account.
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What is the current line on the primary user being removed instead of the secondary? I might want to place a bet.
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Well, they didn’t take my advice on allowing a user to remove themself from the account but if this works correctly I won’t have 40’ish U.P. accounts showing up under mine!
Overall I’m happy they are finally doing something after all my complaints.
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Our thought would be that a primary user who relies on secondary users might want to sign in every 3 months or so as a precaution just in case there is a bug in the implementation.
So a primary couldn’t remove a secondary from their account?
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When I read that announcement on the Amazon forum, I immediately thought of you.
Other than the awful what-could-possibly-go-wrong aspect, it seems like a good idea.
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I really don’t foresee a Primary getting deleted, but I guess it could happen. Either way if you own an account and aren’t signing in at least every few days (or at a minimum once a week) you have no business having an account.
I’ve had issues getting my access removed for the last few years. The method given eventually was to delete “Global” Permissions" first and then delete the user. Somehow though I can still access other accounts even though they show I was deleted.
ETA - Many accounts showing up under my name left the scene years ago and I can’t get a hold of. This goes wayyyy back, so I’ll be thankful to see them go!
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Agree … but there may be some who set the account up with the primary and then gave themself a secondary to use on a daily basis …
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