How can I deactivate an slack user via slash-commands?

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I want to create a bot that deactivates users under some criteria. I can not find any slash command that deactivates user accounts for free slack groups. I only see the option to kick from channel.

For paid versions the following can be used:

https://github.com/ErikKalkoken/slackApiDoc/blob/master/users.admin.setInactive.md

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '17 at 19:14

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You can't do that. Slack exposes a SCIM API for user management, but it is not available for free teams.

answered Jul 11 '17 at 19:14

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '17 at 22:01

To my knowledge there is no API methods to "kick" users automatically that works for free slack teams, so you will have to manually deactivate users you want to kick.

As a workaround I have a small bot running on my slack teams that report daily in a special admin channel which users need to be manually deactivated. That works of course only if you have a hard criteria that you can use to can test if a user is still eligible to be member of your Slack team.

How can I deactivate an slack user via slash-commands?

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