Made the phab account @TechConductCommittee

if it is possible to let a Phab account disable other user accounts without giving full Phab admin rights to such a Phab account.

it isn't.

In T183116#3844425, @Luke081515 wrote:

if it is possible to let a Phab account disable other user accounts without giving full Phab admin rights to such a Phab account.

it isn't.

I was afraid so. :) Thanks! So maybe it's sufficient to keep the way it currently works?: Have the CoC committee contact one of the Phab admins for disabling a Phab account (and reenabling the account after a period of time defined by the CoC committee)?

We could modify the code that controls that action, I think it'd be easy enough to change the conditions.

I'd consider this (the shared account with only the needed permissions) a low-priority need as we (Phab admins) can do the needful when informed (via email to releng@lists.wikimedia.org is sufficient).

it's fairly trivial to add a separate permission check for something like "members of acl*account admins" and then we can add individuals to the account admins project - this would avoid needing a shared phabricator account.

Cf: T102577, probably others.

Hmm, indeed maybe the actual underlying question to solve is "how to contact Phab admins in a private way".

Contacting a phab admin in a private way could be done via conpherence or private tasks somewhat like security bug reports.

For the records, Phab admins are listed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/people/query/DktdoFyuGYMN/#R
Options mentioned so far:

• Create a non-public task via something like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/3/?projects=Phabricator&title=CoC%20account%20disabling%20request&policy.view=PhidThatICannotFigureOut&priority=80
• Set up an invitation-only Conpherence thread.
• email releng@lists.wm.o

Personally I prefer the first because in the end it's a task to perform. Tasks are less noisy than chat rooms, and when wanted easier to ignore than postings on a list.
But I fail to find the PHID for the "Administrators" group (and don't know what to enter in [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conduit/method/phid.lookup/ | Conduit's phid.lookup ]]). Help welcome.

In T183116#3958313, @Aklapper wrote:

For the records, Phab admins are listed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/people/query/DktdoFyuGYMN/#R
Options mentioned so far:

• Create a non-public task via something like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/3/?projects=Phabricator&title=CoC%20account%20disabling%20request&policy.view=PhidThatICannotFigureOut&priority=80
• Set up an invitation-only Conpherence thread.
• email releng@lists.wm.o

Personally I prefer the first because in the end it's a task to perform. Tasks are less noisy than chat rooms, and when wanted easier to ignore than postings on a list.
But I fail to find the PHID for the "Administrators" group (and don't know what to enter in [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conduit/method/phid.lookup/ | Conduit's phid.lookup ]]). Help welcome.

Task or e-mail releng sounds best to me. I would never notice a chat window. And tbh, a task is pushing it...I see [Phabricator] in my inbox and it's never a rush.

Regarding your second question: there is no group: it's a bit set on individual users. You might be better off creating a form with the desired folks already on the CC/assignee field?

But really, if it's an emergency...e-mail is probably best (to me).

Another option: make sure at least one (NDA'd) person on the CoC has admin rights? That's also a possibility.

Asked about the correct policy.view URL parameter in Discourse and Evan replied by pointing to https://secure.phabricator.com/source/phabricator/browse/master/src/applications/policy/constants/PhabricatorPolicies.php;f43d08c2bbe6ed6d7f9b35a09f1d9e0564c13f9b%245-8

So the CoC committee could use this link to create a task that only Phab admins can see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/3/?projects=Phabricator&title=Disable%20account%20-%20CoC%20Committee&policy.view=admin&priority=80